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Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr was picked for various reasons that looked good on paper but didn't work as well in reality. One of those reasons being it was thought he'd make Kennedy compete for Massachussetts, which Kennedy ended up winning handily. Lodge also made a gaffe of promising that a Nixon administration would appoint a Black man to the cabinet, which Black voters felt was shallow pandering and which Southern Whites were repulsed by. And Lodge was a lazy campaigner.

Who else besides Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr could Richard Nixon have picked for his running mate, and what effect would they have had on the campaign and the election? This is simply a matter of other possibilities: it's not about making a better running mate or a worse running mate, though the alternate possibilities could be better, worse, or the same as what Lodge was.
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