Noun
a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices
Source: WordNetrunning-mate
As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket. Kate Clinton
John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush. Mark Shields
I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate. Harold Ford, Jr.
For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought anything is possible. Amy Klobuchar
Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. David Limbaugh
'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right. Dee Dee Myers