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Running mate
By the time this newspaper is published, we may know whether Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has chosen Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as his running mate.He could do a lot worse. In this hard-fought battle for the presidency, of course, there are the pragmatic pluses: this was a red, conservative state and with the heritage of former Gov. Mark Warner, followed by Tim Kaine, its politics have become more even handed.
Kaine has kept the approval of business for locating in Virginia and has furthered a range of school improvements. The state's highway and transportation disaster has stymied him, but there are so many contributors to the problems of financing transportation that the governor is not alone.
But beneath all that, Obama and Kaine have things in their life in common. Kaine went to Harvard Law a few years before Obama. Kaine served a year in a Latin American school as a young man. He is a serious Catholic with a serious objection to the death penalty.
Like Obama, he worked for many years in his Richmond law practice representing the needs of people with housing problems. He is an articulate and cultured man as is Obama.
If he doesn't get the nod, he will bear it with equanimity. If he does, we will be better for it.
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