10 TV Characters Who Would Be Perfect Election Running Mates

6. Gale Boetticher

Larry David Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Perhaps above all else, you need your second in command to be unerringly competent, and Breaking Bad's meth cooking karaoke enthusiast is nothing if not that. Notorious perfectionist Walter White was impressed by Gale's quiet professionalism, and if he can get his head around Walt's complex blue meth recipe, he'd likely be a handy ally in an election.

A natural follower, you can rest assured you won't be upstaged by the meek chemist, and his eagerness to please ought to lead to great results. Best of all, should you ever feel the need to rid yourself of Gale, he's proven himself pretty easy to kill.

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