Choose Your Own Running MateOur readers have voted. Here are the results.

PRINTDISCUSSE-MAILRSSRECOMMEND...SINGLE PAGE

Facebook Digg RedditStumbleUponCLOSE

Updates:

July 1, 2008: Added former Bush administration official Rob Portman.
July 2, 2008: Added retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni and Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Texas. Made Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., available for both Obama and McCain.
July 3, 2008: Added former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele; Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.; and Gen. David Petraeus. Removed Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., who were both born in Cuba.
July 9, 2008: Added Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., and reader comments to some profiles.

Slate intern Tony Romm contributed to this feature. Interactive components by Chris Wilson, and design by Jim Festante.

Facebook Digg RedditStumbleUponCLOSE

Chris Wilson is an associate editor at Slate in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Twitter.

Commenting Lobby
Brought to you by

SPONSORED CONTENT

Also in Slate

The Scary, Growing Backlash Against American Islam
The New York Times' Skimpy Evidence That Women Are Suddenly Proud To Be Flat-Chested
Automakers Used Dead Bodies To Test Their Cars. What Else Are Cadavers Good For?
Is the NYT Book Review Really a Boys' Club? We Ran the Numbers.

• Obama Unleashed
  What will the president say to get Democrats excited for the coming campaign?
  John Dickerson | Sept. 2, 2010
• Still Life With Enemy Combatant
  An exclusive look at the artwork of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
  Tim Fitzsimons | Sept. 2, 2010
• Creep the Faith
  The broadening backlash against American Islam.
  William Saletan | Sept. 2, 2010
• Search for more Politics articles
• Subscribe to the Politics RSS feed
• View our complete Politics archive