Professor Marty Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center, wrote an op-ed piece for the Huffington Post saying President Barack Obama's best chance at re-election is to adopt Mit Romney as his running mate. "You want can't-we-all-get-along?" wrote Kaplan. "Here ya go. An Obama-Romney ticket would have irresistible appeal to the kumbaya constituency." Kaplan's article traced the reasons why he believes that Obama and Romney should join forces. "With Obama-Romney, though, you get the bragging rights of upending the political chessboard, but without running the risk of throwing the race to a side you can't stand," Kaplan wrote. Read the rest of the article here
Kaplan in op-ed: "Obama-Romney for President"
October 17, 2011
Updated May 1, 2023 12:19 p.m.