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Why Sam Nunn keep getting mentioned as a possible veep

Few things are certain in presidential politics, but here are three: it will be expensive; it will get negative; and, at some point, former Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia will be mentioned as a possible Democratic running mate.

The latter has been true in every presidential election since 1984 with the exception of 1996 (when the running mate was the incumbent vice president, Al Gore). It might have even been true going back to 1976 except that year’s Democratic nominee — Jimmy Carter — was also from Georgia.

And sure enough, as running mate list-making enters its quadrennial high season, Mr. Nunn is being named again as the proverbial “Southern moderate-conservative with foreign policy expertise and gravitas” who could be a complement to a Northern Democratic nominee feared too liberal and inexperienced, in this case, Barack Obama.
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