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You are ignorant in the extreme. The vice president presides over joint sessions of Congress, and is a statutory member of the National Security Council, and the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
All of which means he basically has no power.
Especially over the past 100 years, the vice presidency has evolved into a position of domestic and foreign policy political power, and is now widely seen as an integral part of a president's administration. No one has greater influence on the POTUS.
Influence yes, power now.