Jefferson’s Blog
Some election issues are timeless.
Thomas Jefferson writes on the issues of his day, and ours.
October 11, 2012
Are vice presidents relevant?
“The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1797.











Betsy Saunders says:
You hear about VPs during elections, and then they just disappear. Not sure what the point is of parading them around now when they’ll just be invisible later.