The VP slot is going to be critical.
If Obama gets Bloomberg (for example) he could easily pickup a state like Florida.
If McCain were to take Louisiana's new Governor
Bobby Jindal (as some hard-line conservatives are pushing for), that could throw the whole age & minority issue right out the window. (He's 37ish.) Throw some good words about fixing the state, post Katrina, and you could easily have something interesting.
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Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is a Republican politician, and the current governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana.[1] Before his election as governor, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 1st congressional district, where he was elected in 2004 to succeed current U.S. Senator David Vitter. Jindal was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote. Jindal was the second Indian-American to serve in Congress.
On October 20, 2007, Jindal was elected governor of Louisiana, winning a four-way race with 54% of the vote. At age 36, Jindal became the youngest current governor in the United States. He also became the first non-white governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction, the first elected Indian-American governor in U.S. history, as well as the second Asian-American governor to serve in the continental United States after Gary Locke of Washington.
He was chosen by Scholastic Update magazine as "one of America's top 10 extraordinary young people for the next millennium."[2] He was India Abroad Person of the Year in 2005.
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