Vice Presidents Don't Matter

The hype over whom Kamala, a VP, will pick as her VP, is part of the astroturf effort to generate excitement around her non-candidacy. It really doesn’t matter which of the contenders she ends up picking. The last vice president to take the White House before Biden was George H.W. Bush. And like Biden he was a one-term president. The last vice president to exercise any meaningful influence in an administration was Dick Cheney and he was an exception. The average vice president is like the second son of a...