Dem Leader: Obama and Clinton on Same Ticket? Forget it

Democratic voters, and network TV debate moderators, have eagerly talked up the idea of a fusion ticket, one that puts Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the same team in the fall election. That would be one way out of the prolonged, and increasingly ugly, Democratic nomination fight. However, you can add the head of the House Democrats’ campaign arm to the list of those who don’t see an Obama-Clinton–or Clinton-Obama– ticket materializing. “I don’t think that’s going to happen,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

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Van Hollen, who is in regular contact with both the Obama and Clinton camps, emphasized that he doesn’t have any “inside information on that.” He told a group of reporters that forging a ticket which has “the ability to bring together the party” would be an important consideration in the nominee’s choice of a running mate. But he said that putting the loser from the nomination race into the VP slot wouldn’t be necessary to achieve unity. Unity–and the prospect that unity might prove elusive–seemed to be very much on Van Hollen’s mind as he spoke at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington. The 49-year-old congressman, who represents a liberal Maryland district in the DC suburbs, is an uncommitted superdelegate, as are other party leaders. He said he agreed with National Democratic Chairman Howard Dean’s push for the superdelegates to make their choice by July 1. According to Van Hollen, the worsening “tone” of the presidential contest, rather than its length, is his biggest worry heading into a general election in bestellungen von cialis which all 435 House seats will be on the ballot. The unresolved presidential fight, he said, is “the bestellungen von levitra one little storm cloud cymbalta online on the horizon. “I think we can take care of it,” added Van Hollen, whose job is to protect the Democratic majority in the House and to add seats if possible. Despite a lopsided financial advantage over the Republicans (on the order of $44 million to $7 million), Democrats will be going against historical trends in this fall’s House races. After a party picks up large numbers of seats in a “wave” election, like the 2006 vote that gave Democrats back the majority in the House, it usually loses seats in the next election.

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