Ugh. Obama naming Hillary to the VP spot would be suicide. First off, if Democrats think it's a winning electoral strategy, then logically it must be a terrible electoral strategy. Where assessments of positive "electability" (as opposed to negative "unelectability") are concerned, we Democrats are always wrong.

Secondly, assume Obama-Clinton wins the election. Can anyone imagine Hillary playing an appropriate role as a quiet second-fiddle who speaks only when the president asks her to and says only what the president wants her to say? Her, of all people, with her husband? Never happen. Obama would do better to choose a box of hand grenades as his running mate. And even that catastrophic scenario assumes she holds no grudges against Obama -- which is about as safe as assuming that grizzly bear you just shot in the rump doesn't hold a grudge as you invite him into your tent. The damaging-loose-cannon VP issue only gets worse if Hillary has resentment issues to work through.

Thirdly and most importantly, since the Twenty-Second Amendment, second-term presidents rely on the threat of a "third term" by their VP to maintain discipline within their own party in Congress. Nobody will look at a soon-to-be-68-years-old Vice President Clinton as a viable successor to a two-term President Obama. So, yeah, Obama should make Hillary his VP, assuming he wants to spend his entire second term as a lame duck like George W. Bush.

If she wins Ohio, she's holding out 'til Pennsylvania.

Rhubarbs

Yeah. Why would he pick Hillary and her baggage over Kathleen Sebelius and Kansas where she's gov and Ohio  were her father was. I don't get the logic. I mean I understood/stand the Gore chatter but what does Clinton bring other than negatives?