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There isn't one.
How it works: The Framers of the Constitution called for the electors to meet and to vote for a president. Each state's electors would put their ballots--the Constitution calls them certificates--into an envelope, seal it and send it to the President of the Senate. He would open the envelopes and record all the votes; the person who got the most votes would be president, and the person who came in second would be vice president. This worked okay when George Washington was running for president because everyone liked him and there'd be no hard feelings. You can only imagine how well this would work in the 21st century. Imagine working for the man you just spent two years and half a billion dollars of other people's money calling everything short of a wife-beating communist.
When they realized this wasn't gonna work, they wrote the 12th Amendment and ratified it quick. Now, the electors vote for a president, then vote on a separate ballot for a vice-president. The parties themselves decided to make a popular vote for a president equal a popular vote for a vice-president...otherwise, in 1952 you probably would have had President Eisenhower, who was extremely popular at the time, and a very good man, elected with Vice President John Sparkman, the Democrat who was Adlai Stevenson's running mate. (Eisenhower's running mate was Richard Nixon, who was probably the most paranoid man who ever lived. This is the guy who installed recording devices in the Oval Office--and he did it to spy on himself.)
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What amendment separated voting for president and vice president in the electoral college?
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How does the president picks the vice president?
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Did president Zachary Taylor have a running mate?
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Has a women run for president with a black running mate?
Not yet. So far only women running mate.
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Who is your running mate?
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Who was Zachary Taylors running mate?
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Who was James Garfield's running mate?
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Who was Pat Paulsen's Running mate in 1968?
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