I've never seen an election where picking v-p is so difficult  and so difficult to say whether or not it is important. Ch. Crist? Evan Bayh? Tim Kane? Tim Pawlenty? Romney? Wd they really make any difference. I think McCain wd be better off with Romeny. But Romney needs lessons in spontaneity. Romeny looked mechanical and opportunitst the way he blurted out "Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan" in the primaries.       "Hey, if you're the next Ronald Reagan, the Republicans can figure it out. You don't get there by saying 'it's me, folks'."

v-p may make very little difference---or Romney could hold Colorado and Az and even take Michigan. I question whether Evan Bayh cd carry Indianna. I was saying in 1992 : "Bush ought to drop Dan Quayle for Gov Jim Thompson of Ill" and I waz very right. But this year---the v-p is sort of submerged beneath all the hype of Obama and the legacy of McCain.

Like 1824 : was John C Calhoun (no small figure in Am history/politics) really that vizable or important alongside Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay? I think NOT. 

John McCain is Andrew Jackson.
B. Obama is JQ Adams.
Hillary Clinton is Henry Clay------only one of these 3 never to become president.

Adams was a man of the world. A peitist. An intellectual. An abolitionist. A diplomet. What other distinction? Well, he  had the most disappointing presidency in Am history. Reagan, McKinley, Cleveland , all his inferior, were more successful. What you want for success is a Harry Truman listening to a JQ Adams; then you've got a great presidency. Likewise, James Madison, most influential American ever---more JD Rockefeller or Th Edison and Mark Twain and Bill Gates and Th Roosevelt put together---was not that successful. He wrote the constitution.  A few months after it went into effect, there were revolutions in France and Brazil.  On the centennial of the US cont., Brazil and Japan established constitutions. About every country in Latin America used Madison's model. But as a president?  Not that great. (his v-p? He had two; they both died in office).