They were just a heartbeat away from the presidency but how much do we really know about America’s Vice Presidents? Test your knowledge of some of the men that held that much maligned office and their roles in the nation’s history.

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President Barack Obama's big speech at the Democratic National Convention has been moved from a 74,000 seat football stadium to a 20,000 seat arena. In their desperation to hide the fact that our Candidate-in-Chief can no longer draw stadium sized crowds (even when his campaign is willing to bus them in from other states), Team Obama is blaming the change of venue on weather fooling neither the American people nor the chief meteorologistt at a Charlotte television station. Now in addition to this decrease in expected crowd size, there is a lack of festive props to drop onto Mr. Obama at the end of his speech.

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After almost a full term in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama still has no idea how to be an effective American president. A little over 2 months before he could even get the job, Republican nominee Mitt Romney proved that he knows how it's done.

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The storm shortened Republican National Convention gets down to business today but there may be a major surprise planned for this carefully scripted and otherwise pre-announced event. According to the newly released convention schedule, a speaker listed only as 'To Be Announced' will deliver his or her remarks to the delegates and a national television audience on Thursday night.

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