There is no precedent for any VP dropping out doing any good. The only precedent is the Eagleton model, and we know how that turned out. OTOH, if they want to do that so they can blame the messiah’s loss on a rich white man, that might be fine.
On the Bill Cunningham show last night a guy called in asking more questions about Obama’s citizenship status. Says they can’t really prove he was born in Hawaii in 1961 and the campaign seems to be running away from this. Bill said it was possible that if it were revealed Obama was not born in the US then he might have to drop out and Clinton would step in. This is a bit of a far fetched scenario but Bill insisted if it happened that Hillary certainly would win the general election. I do not agree though. Can you imagine the fracture this would cause? The Dems would be in a crisis, not to mention the huge turnout among African Americans probably would be reduced. Or there would be such ill will there that the election would surely be lost. So I am almost wishing this whole scenario would play out.