Who Will Be McCain's Vice Presidential Candidate?

The list includes former presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney

By U.S. News Staff

May 13, 2008 RSS Feed Print

Sen. John McCain may be in the early stages of picking a running mate, but that doesn't stop the press from speculating. Today in Washington Whispers, Paul Bedard asks you to pick the best running mate for McCain, and yesterday, our own James Pethokoukis reported that Huckabee tops the list of potential veeps. But there are still other candidates to consider and we're letting you in on some little known facts about each one. Our latest addition is 10 Things You Didn't Know About Rob Portman.

Here are names we've identified in media reports and links to 10 things you didn't know about them (we'll update the list as we hear of more):

  • Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour
  • North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr
  • Florida Gov. Charlie Crist
  • Former Arkansas Gov. and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee
  • Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.
  • Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
  • Former Ohio Rep. and former Director of the Office of Management and Budget Rob Portman
  • Former Secretary of State Colin Powell
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
  • Former Massachusetts Gov. and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney
  • Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan
  • South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford
  • FedEx CEO Frederick Smith
  • GOPAC Chair Michael Steele
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hotels in tux hintertux of 7:49PM May 04, 2010

how about mac n rice

what happens if obama meets with a tragedy like many of hillary's past associates/enemys such as a small plane crash b4 the election? she must be thinking that. lightning strikes all around her

curious of CA 12:35AM June 06, 2008

how it be lookin now, Bama n Billery,u know whats on her mind . Change is right. So a whopping 34 million people came out to vote in the primaries. mighty impressive. lets say that half the population is an eligible voter the other half being under 18 and or an illegal, these numbers being off a great deal i hope but if they were true 34 is still only 22% of 150 mill in a nation of 300 mill. this is not an election this is a comedy of apathy. Small minds abound and big business enjoys every second of it. Mc Cain well now there is at least a man with his heart in the right place but hes not seeing any sunshine. reality you say, change you say, how is the worm hillery going to change anything. oh, oh, oh pick me pick me for vp if i will be a help that is..so coy, so demuire, so back stabing snake in the grass for real hire some extra secret service men and make sure they arent ex arkansas statw troopers.. do a google search and look up bill clinton dead pool. fun reading. obama well now there is a , a, a, player just like slick in training. And our republican friend, like him as i do, couldnt change anything and has no plan to. You think i am egocentric and out of touch with reality. mr/ms media rehashman. take the blinders off and look for the truth you bible bashing fundo. all the bible is, is one big paraphrase, its not needed to see the truth or run a campaign i do agree with you there. BUT THERE STILL ARENT ANY REAL CANDIDATES

Tony of MT 10:27PM June 03, 2008

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