WI: Mario Cuomo '92?

You're too generous to both Perot and Cuomo.

Cuomo/Clinton or Cuomo/Richards would be the ideal ticket; a northern New Deal liberal backed up by a charismatic Southern moderate. I put Perot in just for the hell of it. Pretend he ran a better campaign.
 
Cuomo/Clinton or Cuomo/Richards would be the ideal ticket; a northern New Deal liberal backed up by a charismatic Southern moderate. I put Perot in just for the hell of it. Pretend he ran a better campaign.

Ideal to Democrats - yes
Ideal to the majority of the nation's voters (at least ideal enough to win a majority of EC votes) - not so sure
 
Ideal to Democrats - yes
Ideal to the majority of the nation's voters (at least ideal enough to win a majority of EC votes) - not so sure
Clinton and Richards were very popular and charismatic. Cuomo / Richards would win, much easier than Cuomo / Clinton, which is unfeasible if the campaign is anything like OTL, where Clinton mudslinged way too much.
 
Clinton and Richards were very popular and charismatic. Cuomo / Richards would win, much easier than Cuomo / Clinton, which is unfeasible if the campaign is anything like OTL, where Clinton mudslinged way too much.

Richards' popularity was not enough to keep George W. Bush out of the governor's mansion, and Cuomo is not winning Texas regardless of running mates.
 
Richards' popularity was not enough to keep George W. Bush out of the governor's mansion, and Cuomo is not winning Texas regardless of running mates.

He won't win Texas, but he can keep the South in play; he'll surely win West Virginia, and Richards could help in nearby states (New Mexico, Arkansas, maybe Louisiana).
 
He won't win Texas, but he can keep the South in play; he'll surely win West Virginia, and Richards could help in nearby states (New Mexico, Arkansas, maybe Louisiana).

I may be wrong, but I believe that Richards' popularity outside of Texas was due mainly to her "silver foot" one-liner at the Democratic National Convention. Besides, the helping power of VP selections is in general overrated. They can hurt more then they can help.
 
Cuomo/Richards might be a better tandem than Cuomo/Clinton. Nevertheless, both tandems would not win in Texas anyway but Cumo/Richards would sure get some Bush and Perot votes.
 
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