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"V-Ps IN THE RACE"

7/27/16 The News-Dispatch & 7/28/16 The Herald-Argus

Now that the Vice-Presidential candidates have been selected and the respective conventions will soon be over, the 2016 general election race is now upon us. GOP nominee Donald Trump selected Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate- someone who in many ways is his opposite: low-key, even-tempered and more consistently conservative. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has chosen Virginia Senator Tim Kaine for her VP. Kaine does not have all the baggage and scandals that make Clinton something of a politically-vulnerable "lame duck." Voters now have the choice of two tickets in which the front-runners are extremely polarizing: the unhinged and unstable Trump vs. the careless and irresponsible Clinton; and in which their respective V-Ps are considerably more presidential. Sigh...