re: #410 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I think there is something about the Prez and VP needing to be from different states..

I had to go look it up. Per Snopes, that rule doesn’t apply to candidates. It applies to electors:

snopes.com

The framers did anticipate one potential flaw with their electoral mechanism, though: Since each state would likely consider it to be to their advantage for the nation’s chief executive to be a fellow statesman, electors would be tempted to vote only for candidates from their home states. And since every elector would vote for two candidates, and states with larger populations had more representatives in Congress and therefore got to appoint more electors, this process created the possibility that the presidency would be continually held by candidates hailing from a few of the largest states. (Many delegates believed that rarely would any presidential candidate receive a majority of electoral votes, so every four years the House of Representatives would essentially be choosing a president from among the five candidates “nominated” by the three or four states with the most electoral votes.) Therefore, Article II (as well as the Twelfth Amendment, which modified it) specified that electors must “vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves,” a requirement that guaranteed at least half of each state’s electoral votes would be cast for candidates from other states.

This requirement is still in effect today, but confusion arises when people misunderstand it to govern the actions of candidates rather than electors. Nothing in the constitution bars presidential and vice-presidential candidates from the same state from running, being elected, or holding office together; it only bars the electors from their home state from voting for both of them.

In other words, the electors in Florida wouldn’t be able to vote for a Bush/Rubio ticket since both of them are from Florida. That’s typically why the two parties will chose candidates from different states.