Clinton/Obama Ticket? Bad Idea

Regardless of who is the top and who the bottom, running those two on the same ticket would probably lose to McCain or to anybody else.

Bill Clinton and others who think the pair would be unbeatable are looking at it from the wrong angle in thinking that it would bring in all the voters who like either one.

There is a group of people who will not vote for a woman and there is another group who will not vote for a black. To some degree, the groups overlap, but the combination of both groups is larger than either one alone. If Obama and Clinton run together, they will push two groups of voters into voting Republican or staying home, not just one.

Either Clinton or Obama can probably beat a Republican this year, but if the GOP had not made itself so unpopular the past few years, it's unlikely that either one of them could overcome votes that will be lost automatically because of prejudice against sex or color.

Clinton or Obama can probably overcome McCain in November, but Clinton and Obama probably can't, not because of policy or personality, but because of numbers.