The Obama, Biden Ticket – Was it Really a Surprise?
With the Olympic Games winding down the day before, the Democratic National Convention is one of the most widely anticipated television events with little on the air to compete for it. Yet aside from the verbose speeches, heroic figures, and good food, the largest spectacle of the convention will be the Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama and his freshly chosen running mate: Joe Biden. His choice of a running mate was widely anticipate to be an 8am surprise announced via text message sent to close supporters and it would be spread like wildfire (notice any web 2.0 concepts there?). Yet, we quickly found out that CNN had spoiled the surprise by announcing his V.P. pick at 3am. Though many were outraged at the surprise spoil, it leaves us to wonder just how much of a surprise Obama’s choice for his running mate was.
The possible choices as a vice presidential running mate were well known names such as: Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Al Gore, Evan Bayh, and the most wanted, contested, and debatable of possibilities: Hilary Clinton. With at least 50% of the delegates going to the convention clamoring for Clinton to be put on the joint ticket, it’s a huge surprise that Obama would even consider anyone else for the right hand position at the White house; or is it? Let’s take into account all of the tension and personal hate created between the two candidates who fiercely opposed not necessarily each other’s policies; but the each other’s personalities, morals, and views. This obvious disgust for one another transferred over into their grass roots support; so much so that many Hilary backers poll that they will simply not vote for Obama because is not Clinton; regardless of their party affiliation. These feelings caused an irreparable rift between the two candidates in such a way that a joint ticket would more than likely cause even more embittered feelings between the two.
The other candidates such as Al Gore, John Edwards, and Chris Dodd all have (very ineloquently put) a proven track record of losing which makes them very unlikely to boost Obama’s credentials among voters looking for reassurance that he truly has an honest shot at becoming the next President of the United States. This narrows the choices for Obama’s running mate considerably. Yet, despite the logical calculations behind guessing Obama’s running mate, the most compelling evidence that his choice was not a surprise comes from the Obama/Biden graphic t shirts that were ready that same morning. Now it may seem small, but let’s analyze that. It would take one day for a graphic designer to come up with the actual graphic for the t shirt, and about a day to print a significant amount so that they could be handed out to supporters or sold online. This means that the graphic designer knew who the running mate was going to be and probably spread the word on top of the people at the t-shirt factory who saw the shirts. These graphic t shirts, surprisingly, offer substantial proof that Obama’s VP pick was not a surprise.
Author: Fred McCoy
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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