Because (as we've noted before) he's a proven vote-getter in Michigan who could possibly swing the state's 17 electoral votes ... scholar loves to point out, no veep pick since Lyndon B.

In the episode, Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her opponent Bill O’Brien (Brad Leland) are locked in a 269-269 tie in the Electoral College ... people who made Veep noticed the similarities.

With that in mind, does it make sense for the Democratic nominee to pick his running mate with an eye toward the electoral map? Intelligencer ... these days is that the veep doesn’t make much ...

It all coming down to Nevada? A possible electoral tie? Yep, “Veep” already did all of it. Senior Editor, Obsessed “This is like an episode of Veep,” is a sentence that’s been invoked ...

Which is exactly why Veep weirdly feels timelier than ever. The 2016 electoral meltdown never gets mentioned on the show, of course – this is an alternate timeline where Trump, Clinton and ...

The entire fifth season of “Veep” has taken place in the speculative aftermath of an electoral college tie in a presidential election, which hasn’t happened in real life in more than two ...