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Vice Presidential Switcheroo

I'm strangely excited by this idea.

Some called a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton pairing the "Dream Ticket" in 2008. It didn't happen.

But what about 2012?

"It's on the table," veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward told CNN's John King in an interview Tuesday on John King, USA. "Some of Hillary Clinton's advisers see it as a real possibility in 2012."

The scenario – whereby Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would switch positions - has been bandied about by political observers for months, seen by some as a potentially savvy strategy to gin up excitement among what appears to be a depressed Democratic base.

Talk about a shot of excitement in the bloodstream of the Democratic Party come 2012. The Republicans would be hard-pressed to overcome that juggernaut. Of course, that's the likely calculus behind the idea.