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US elections: McCain invites Jindal as ‘his running mate’ |
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US Senator John McCain, the Republican candidate for the Presidential election, has on his short list of Vice-Presidential candidates Bobby Jindal, an American national of Indian origin and first Indian American Governor of the State of Louisiana. He has invited Jindal and two others to meet him at his retreat outside Sedona, Arizona. The two others are McCain’s former rival for Presidential nomination, Mitt Romney and Florida Governor Charlie Cris. McCain’s spokesman has, however, played down the gathering saying it would be “purely social”.
Jindal is the cynosure of the political class right now because of his unusual background in a party that has been a bastion of the white conservative male and is looking for fresh faces and voices to beat back the Democratic onslaught. Although he is a political novice, was only recently elected Governor of Louisiana and has said he wants to fulfil his commitments to the State, Jindal’s candidature is being promoted by a section of the conservatives saying, the first-generation dark-skinned of Indian origin can match Barack Obama’s appeal and his youth. Jindal is only 36 – can counter the handicap of McCain being the oldest ever Presidential candidate at 71.
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