Vice President

So it's Monday morning, it's 100 degrees outside and you're back in the office.

But cheer up: the New York Observer's Steve Kornacki has a VP cheat-sheet.

Don't expect Maryland's U.S. senators to be a presidential runningmate. In a survey of the U.S. Senate's membership not already running for president on whether they'd accept an offer to be vice president, The Hill newspaper found a variety of responses to the veepstakes question. Some were accompanied by laughs, others took the question seriously.

So, how did Democrats Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski respond?

How many times did two Marylanders run for the vice presidency in the same year?

Those of you who are national Politicker devotees might have saw this story last week: our New Jersey correspondent Matt Friedman caught up with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer in a campaign swing through the Garden State on Friday.