Advice for Picking a Lady VP Candidate (based loosely on political science research)

Pick a woman who has never disagreed with you; disagreeable women are unlikeable, and we’re going to need someone likable if she plans to run in 2024. (1/x) https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/29/biden-allies-move-to-stop-kamala-harris-from-becoming-vice-president.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/2...
Pick a woman with slender ankles. The first woman to be nominated for vice-president was a size 6. We’d like to keep her in that ballpark. (4/x) https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2011/03/27/geraldine-ferraro">https://www.economist.com/democracy...
Pick a woman who would make a good “work wife” so we can get a hint of warm fuzziness we used to feel about your platonic bromance with Barack Obama. (5/x) https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/g7653/barack-obama-joe-biden-funny-photos/">https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity...
Pick a woman who isn’t trying to “sell herself” or “build her brand.” This skirts too close to prostitution for our taste. (9/x) https://www.thecut.com/2020/07/aoc-speech-ted-yoho-new-york-times.html">https://www.thecut.com/2020/07/a...
Pick a woman with an even temperament, who would never, for example, murder a popular political rival in an illegal duel and then flee south temporarily before returning to serve out the remainder of her term or raise an army to invade Mexico. (10/x) https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1834600_1834604,00.html">https://content.time.com/time/spec...
Pick a woman who is competent, but not so competent as to spark a reckoning over our collective discomfort with women’s agency. That would be a bit distracting, don’t you think? (x)
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