Obama's Veep-Hunting Team Gears Up

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Obama's Veep-Hunting Team Gears Up
By Greg Sargent - June 6, 2008, 3:30PM

The team tasked to find Obama the right veep swings into action:

Congressional sources tell NBC News that Obama's vice presidential vetting team of Jim Johnson, Caroline Kennedy, and Eric Holder will be on Capitol Hill Monday and Tuesday interviewing senators and members of Congress about their recommendations. Those being visited are NOT potential choices.

The point, according to Senate offices, is to collect information about a potential field.

One interesting dimension to this: The question of how senators or Members of Congress will navigate pressure from their own constituents to advocate for making Hillary Veep, should there be any.

A CNN poll released today found that 54% of registered Dems think Obama should name her as Veep, while 43% opposed it. Sixty percent of Democratic women favored it.

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1. I oppose it and I know Obama will

take suggestions from his VP Committee but at the end it will be his decision.