Could Clinton Demand - And Get - VP Slot?

Could Clinton Demand - And Get - VP Slot?

Submitted by politicalWinters on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 7:25am.

  Here's an interesting "what-if" scenario - could Hillary Clinton demand the vice presidential spot at the Democratic National Convention and could Barack Obama stop her.

  This article says she could not only demand it, but get it. And there's nothing Obama could do.

  Obama will go into the convention with the most pledged delegates, and the way it looks, he'll win the majority of superdelegates. But when it comes time to vote for the vice presidential nominee, Clinton could ask the superdelegates to support her.

  A big number of these, according to the article by Bob Beckel, owe their political careers to the Clintons. While they may go with Obama for president, they simply won't deny the Clintons twice. 

  Beckel managed Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign and is a senior political analist for Fox News.