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3. At national party conventions held the summer before general elections for the presidency,
there is often a lot of discussion about the selection of a vice presidential running mate for the
parties' front runners. In choosing the VP candidate, parties often engage in
_______. So for example, Joe Biden, an older, white, long term centrist Senator from Delaware with a working class image was chosen to be the running mate of a Barack Obama, a young, black (mixed race), Constitutional scholar newly elected Senator from the midwestern state of Illinois. In turn, when Biden ran for the Presidency, his running mate was a fairly young, mixed race (Indian and Jamaican) feminist from California, newly elected to the U.S. Senate.