Two questions about vice-presidents:

[Donald Ian Rankin]

1) Whom do you think Clinton should pick as her running mate?
2) Whom do you think Clinton will pick as her running mate?

I haven't even heard any names being bandied around yet.

[Ebbegirl]

1. I've heard...

Julián Castro name being mentioned.

[Treant]

2. I've also heard Castro.

He'd be fine, although his resume seems a bit light for the VP spot at this point. A nice Admin position in the Clinton administration would help him out there, though, and ready him for 2024.

[Fla Dem]

3. Just posted that Tom Perez's (Sec of Labor) name is making the circuit. nt

[Rose Siding]

4. Sherrod Brown might be smart geographically

He's OH, right? Big swing state. But Castro's good geographic and demographic -wise.

[book_worm]

5. Julian Castro is my answer to both questions.

[KewlKat]

6. Not sure who she'd pick but

would you support her if she were to choose a republican? We need to really bring everyone together. When she wins if she has a repub senate/congress then can she accomplish anymore than President Obama. Perhaps with a repub VP we can actually get the peoples work done.

what do you think?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. I would be disappointed were she to do so.

I'd still support her (I wouldn't vote for her, obviously, but if I were American I would), but I think it would be a) tactically rash, and b) a worrying warning sign about what policy direction she might be charting.

I don't believe Clinton, or anyone else, will be able to accomplish much in the face of a Republican-controlled house regardless of vice-president; I think the best case for the next four years of American politics is more gridlock with incremental gains and decent SCOTUS nominations, unfortunately. To make things significantly better rather than merely stop them getting worse would probably require control of all three branches of government, and I'm dubious about that happening any time soon.

[spooky3]

8. Absolutely not, but there is no reason to believe she

Would do this, so it's a purely hypothetical question.

Obama has bent over backwards to work with Republicans; they have chosen to obstruct since he was elected. That problem is not solved by putting another of them a heartbeat away from the Presidency. And it would alienate many voters and probably would not bring in a single voter who would not also have voted for her with a VP who shared Dem values.