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Bear in mind that I’m on the outside looking in; I don’t like either major party.  However, I think that a Obama-Clinton ticket wouldn’t be such a bad thing.  Obama has repeatedly evoked Lincoln throughout the primaries.  A Obama-Clinton ticket would be an interesting parallel that would compare greatly with Lincoln.  In history, Lincoln had beaten the presumptive nominee for the Republican party, William Seward.  He ended up picking him to be his Secretary of State and became a powerful counselor to the President.  If we assume that, should Obama become the President, he is a strong leader and not just a bunch of speaches, he’s going to need Hillary’s strength to do a lot of the things that his flowery rhetoric lays out.  From what I’ve read of him, he will listen to everyone and then he makes the final decision.  If that’s the case, then the electoral math notwithstanding, I think that such a ticket would probably end up crushing John McCain in the Fall.