Playing the Veepstakes
As John McCain and Barack Obama turn their attention to their next big decision, choosing a running mate, TIME.com looks at some of each party's top contenders and dark horses
The popular Ohio governor and onetime Methodist minister would increase Obama's chances in the key swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, and even help in Kentucky, where Clinton routed him. Strickland's roots in rural southern Ohio make him popular with white working-class voters, and his record of cutting taxes and the cost of education get him surprisingly high marks among both liberals and conservatives. But the former Congressman is a blank slate on foreign policy and national security, and as a first-term governor, he has barely more executive experience than Obama.
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