A ticket to unify the nation

In most election years the candidates for vice president have little real effect on election outcomes. The most often cited exception to this is the presence on the long ago 1960 Democratic ticket of Sen. Lyndon Johnson, who probably carried Johnson’s home state of Texas for the Kennedy — Johnson ticket. People now on Social Security were barely born in that year of JFK and LBJ.   

 The rollicking politics of this year, however, may set the stage for a real and meaningful selection for vice president. 

The emergence of dynamic and charismatic Kamala Harris now provides the Democrats with a running chance to win.  She is confronted by a veritable parade of conventional politicians clamoring to be her running mate. None of them offer anything of real substance to the country or to a winning Democratic ticket.