Originally Posted By: dontomasso

I believe Richardson is overrated in terms of delivering the so called Hispanic vote. My thought is McCain will take Romney putting mIchigan into play. Webb is a good choice because he brings military and foreign policy chops to the ticket, but he barely won Virginia, and he doesn't do much more than deliver Virginia, where the demographics are changing enough for Obama to have a chance regardless. My guess is he picks either Gov Rendell of Pennsylvania, who would help him hold Pa, possibly win Ohio and also mollify the Jewish voters, who would put Florida back in lay if they all came out to vote (and if the elections commission allows blacks here to vote). His other choice would be Gov. Strickland of Ohio. He could bring in the so called working class whites with whom Obama has trouble connecting and also probaly carry Ohio which is probably a must win state.

I saw an online electoral vote poll that is about 3 weeks old which shows McCain leads in states totaling 269 electoral votes. If that holds Obama would have to win every remaining undecided state.

I think this is going to be a close election, and would be interested to see what the odds are that it will end up in an electoral vote tie and go to the House of Repreeentatives.

P.S. PB, I totally agree with you and I also always though Lieberman was a weasel.
"So Al Gore gave his loyalty to a Jew over his own blood"
"Ahhh come on Frankie, you know Al Gore did business with Joe Lieberman, Al Gore respected Joe Lieberman."
"
Al Gore worked with Joe Lieberman, Al Gore respected Joe Lieberman, but Al Gore never
never trusted Joe Lieberman, or his Arizona messenger boy John McCain!"


I like Bill Richardson a lot, but I agree that he doesn't bring enough broad appeal to the ticket. There's a reason he dropped out of the race early.

Webb brings some military credibility, but I also question how effective he'd be under the glare of a national presidential race. I think he comes off cranky and bland, and you're absolutely right to question his appeal in the close race in 2006 when he won by 1/2 a pct. point.

I was surprised you mentioned Rendell, who was the staunchest Hillary supporter during the primary, no doubt paying off a debt to Bill Clinton, who made his wife a federal judge and then appointed her to the Third Circuit. Rendell was the Philadelphia DA when the city became the first in US history to decide to drop a bomb on itself in 1985. He is an avid Philadelphia Eagle fan and has been spotted with groups of fans, pelting Phil Simms, LT, Parcells and the NY Giants with snowballs at old Veterans Stadium. He also went on Fox News, praising the network's criticism of Obama. I think he comes off sleazy.

I'm not too familiar with Gov. Strickland.

I don't think that having Hillary on the ticket would necessarily result in the Clintons trying to run the show. While Cheney has been able to exert excessive influence over Bush, Obama didn't come all this way to be manipulated. I think Hillary as a VP candidate brings a lot to the ticket.