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"I'm very grateful for all the things she's done to invigorate our party," he said, trying his best not to think about the agonizing 15 months or so that he'll have to awkwardly refrain from endorsing anyone so as not to totally alienate his former running-mate.
HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 26TH, 2010 Eliot Nelson 2010
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And the guy running for president and selecting Sarah Palin as his running-mate?
Katrina L. Rogers: Three Thoughts on the Brewer-Obama Spat Katrina L. Rogers 2012
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Brady said on October 5 said a $50 billion bond borrowing scheme to rescue Illinois's faltering pension system is an option on table, a scheme that Brady's own lieutenant governor running-mate, Jason Plummer, 28, has implicitly criticized.
David Ormsby: Bill Brady's Tea Party Push-Back David Ormsby 2010
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He did tell an NPR interviewer that McCain's running-mate, Sarah Palin, wasn't up to the task of taking over the presidency in a crisis but could become "adequate."
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Says Patrick, noting ex-ESPN running-mate Keith Olbermann, who's also part of NBC's cast Sunday: "We've been talking to (NBC Sports head) Dick Ebersol about a reality show where Keith and I live together."
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For the next month, put aside that we didn't get medicare for all, that Howard Dean should have been the nominee in 2004, that Gore should have stuck up for Clinton in 2000 instead of distancing himself and choosing turncoat Lieberman as a running-mate, and all the other stupid Orange Revolution-like hangovers of the Democratic Party over the last couple decades.
Andrea Chalupa: What Liberals Must Learn From Ukraine's Orange Revolution Andrea Chalupa 2010
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Some thought he flinched in the traditional role of running-mate attack dog for Bob Dole in the '96 presidential election.
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She did not step down from the governorship when she gave birth to a child with special needs, or when she was asked to be McCain's running-mate.
In Other News... 2009
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For the next month, put aside that we didn't get medicare for all, that Howard Dean should have been the nominee in 2004, that Gore should have stuck up for Clinton in 2000 instead of distancing himself and choosing turncoat Lieberman as a running-mate, and all the other stupid Orange Revolution-like hangovers of the Democratic Party over the last couple decades.
Andrea Chalupa: What Liberals Must Learn From Ukraine's Orange Revolution Andrea Chalupa 2010
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He did tell an NPR interviewer that McCain's running-mate, Sarah Palin, wasn't up to the task of taking over the presidency in a crisis but could become "adequate."
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