"Just the Ticket" -- Obama/Clinton 2012 -- Bill Keller, New York Times -- 1/9/2012

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64. I think the responses to this thread opposed to the idea are enlightening --

There are a couple of responses that are fair-minded, practical considerations of the idea.

I myself am open to the idea, but not wedded to it. I think, on balance, it would help Obama's re-election campaign. Would it be a magic bullet? No. It may not even be, on balance, the best move to make. I think reasonable people can disagree about it.

But the vast majority of the opposing responses don't even consider the plausibility of the idea -- they engage, instead, in visceral Hillary-hate.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the great majority of those who can't get past the Primary Wars these days are not the old Hillarites -- they are instead the "sore winners" of the 2008 primary season.

Obama may decide to make the switch. Whether he does or doesn't I'm sure he will make the decision on practical, dispassionate grounds. I don't think he's a sore winner.