Shriver had held appointive office under three presidents. Edited by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and J. History reveals certain patterns, but it also suggests that the past is an imperfect guide. Many of the past or sitting executive branch officials also had served in Congress (Lodge, Bush, Kemp, Cheney). Still, there's nothing in the U.S. Constitution, particularly the 12th Amendment, that prevents a Republican from choosing a Democratic running mate or a Democrat from choosing a Green Party politician as her vice presidential candidate. An unsuccessful presidential candidate from a prior cycle provides another source of running mates. His latest book, The White House Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden, is on the growing power and stature of vice presidents. Accordingly, 10 of the 22 running mates had not previously figured prominently in presidential speculation. Govs. The 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced on August 11 that he had selected U.S. Each party holds a national convention to finalize the selection of one presidential nominee.

For instance, Gov. Vice presidential candidates generally do not come from the most recent ranks of defeated presidential candidates. The objective is to create a more widespread appeal for the ticket and the results can range from assisting the resulting pair of candidates in appealing to a larger base of people to deterring voters who were initially inclined to vote for the running candidate, but may have been put off by the choice of the running mate.
How could it happen?

In cases of both separate elections and appointments, the President and Vice-President are not considered running mates because they are not elected on the same ticket. Tom Murse is a former political reporter and current Managing Editor of daily paper "LNP," and weekly political paper "The Caucus," both published by LNP Media in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. There's one other way the U.S. could end up with a president and vice president could end up from opposing parties: in the case of an electoral tie where both presidential candidates receive fewer than the 270 electoral votes needed to win. Here are some observations: That pattern has held since 1864, when Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Andrew Johnson ran together on a National Union ticket; accordingly, it may seem too obvious to include. Brian Sandoval (R-NV) is frequently mentioned as one of the party’s most gifted officeholders.

It is preferred, but not legally required, that the running mate be from a different state from the presidential nominee, because each elector can vote for no more than one candidate from his or her own state.

Most tickets have some geographic balance.

Vikram David Amar, a law professor at the University of California at Davis, wrote: How Presidents and Vice Presidents Are Elected.

Eagleton’s Senate career was sufficiently admired that he, along with Howard Baker, was chosen to speak when the Senate celebrated its bicentennial. Republicans chose all the governors; Democrats have not nominated a governor for the second spot since 1924.

In the Republic of Ireland, the term "running mate" refers to members of the same party who are running for the same constituency in a general election for Dáil Éireann. The caution that an unsuccessful presidential candidacy is generally not the route to the ticket’s second spot would seem to apply even more forcefully this year. ThoughtCo uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. Vice President …

In many countries in which there are a President and Vice-President with both positions being directly elected, the running mate of the winning presidential candidate automatically assumes the Vice-Presidency; a notable exception is the Philippines, in which one presidential candidate can be (and usually is) elected with the running mate of an opposing candidate. All but Lieberman have been Christians; seven (Miller, Edmund Muskie, Eagleton, Shriver, Ferraro, Joe Biden, and Ryan) have been Catholics.

Recent Republican presidential nominees other than Reagan have chosen a running mate to their right. Since 1960, presidential candidates have chosen 22 first-time running mates. 465 Crestwood DriveP.O.

Even in relatively normal election years, departures from prior practice occur. Tickets rarely span a party’s ideological space anymore but some philosophical diversity is common; think Jimmy Carter and Mondale, Ronald Reagan and Bush, Bush and Quayle, Michael Dukakis and Bentsen, Romney and Ryan.
Many vice presidential candidates have been prior vice presidential shortlisters; that group would include at least Humphrey, Shriver, Mondale, Bush, Bentsen, Gore, Kemp, and Edwards. | Privacy Policy, The White House Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden.

Although some other unsuccessful presidential candidates have received serious consideration from the presidential nominee — Humphrey and Muskie in 1972; Frank Church in 1976; Gore in 1988; Richard Gephardt in 1988 and 2004; Bob Dole and Kemp in 1988; Hillary Clinton in 2008; and Romney in 2008 — most do not.

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Candidates for president and vice president have appeared together on the same ticket since the election of 1804, the year the 12th Amendment was ratified. Running mates may be chosen, by custom or by law, to balance the ticket geographically, ideologically, or personally; examples of such a custom for each of the criteria are, geographically, in Nigerian presidential elections, in which a presidential candidate from the predominantly Christian south is typically matched with a vice presidential candidate from the predominantly Muslim north, and vice versa, ideologically, the Brazilian general elections in 2010 and 2014, where Dilma Rousseff of the left-wing Workers' Party ran alongside Michel Temer of the center-right Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, and, personally, the 2016 Bulgarian presidential election, in which both candidates who went on to the second round of voting, Rumen Radev and Tsetska Tsacheva, had running mates of the opposite gender. When Are Presidential Running Mates Chosen? Recent nominees may covet the big blocs of electoral votes in contested states but they rarely choose a running mate to carry a large, swing state. The novel features of this cycle increase that likelihood.