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Article: Governors now await VP running-mate call.(Local)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2008
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By Jim Kuhnhenn
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA
For more than three decades, the National Governors Association has assembled on presidential election years as one of its members made a bid for the White House - a Carter or a Reagan, a Dukakis, a Clinton or a Bush.
Not this time.
With two senators as the presumed nominees of their respective parties, the governors have been consigned to the running-mate heap. There, along with others, they are being picked over for a job described by Depression-era Vice President John Nance Garner as "not worth a bucket of warm spit" - yet one that's a heartbeat away from the presidency.
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