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From: ciampa@wivax.UUCP (Robert Ciampa)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.women
Subject: Re: Female Veep
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Date: Thu, 19-Jul-84 17:09:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 19 17:09:00 1984
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>>Having a woman vp candidate is an obvious ploy to gain votes?  So, like,
>>so was Kennedy having Johnson as vp.  I always heard that's what running
>>mates were chosen for.
>>
>>	L S Chabot

The process used by Kennedy is called "balancing the ticket".  It is a
political method used to get votes from a different geographic region.
The process used by Mondale is called "common sense".  With his relative
position in the polls, why not play host to the sex with the greater
(today, anyways) voting power?
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Robert A. Ciampa {apollo, cadmus, decvax, linus, masscomp}!wivax!ciampa
                  Wang Institute (617) 649-9731 x372