MCCAIN UPDATES:
1. US News World & Report says Mike Huckabee is on the McCain shortlist. Why? He's "a great campaigner and communicator," he's more like the common man than Millionaire Mitt and he's not bad with money.
2. The Washington Post reports Tim Pawlenty as the top contender -- with John Thune, Rob Portman, Charlie Crist and Mitt Romney coming in next.
3. Bloomberg.com predicts that McCain will pick T-Paw, Rob Portman or Mitt Romney. But then again, they also say he may surprise us with Lieberman... even though he's already assured us he won't go with a Pro-Choice candidate.
OBAMA UPDATES:
1. The Washington Post reports Kathleen Sebelius as the top contender -- with Ted Strickland, Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine and Sam Nunn following.
2. Who better to go up against "McCain-Schrute '08" than Scranton's own Bob Casey? “That’s a hypothetical I’m not answering,” Casey said. “I just want to keep working to get him elected.” (In case you're not familiar with Washington psychobabble, that means "Like most of my bretheran, I have no illusions of grandeur so I act like I don't want it... but if he called, I'd be on the job faster than Eliot Spitzer speed-dialing a prostitute!) And Obama says, "I just love the guy."
3. To lift the spirits of all those voters who were hell-bent on getting a woman into the White House, there's Kathleen Sebelius. All we know for sure is that when it comes to pointing things out, an Obama-Sebelius ticket can't be beat.
VEEP POLL:
The Hill recently polled all 97 of the senators not running for President if they'd consider the #2 slot. Here's what some noteworthy senators had to say...
YES: Evan Bayh (D-IN), Bob Bennett (R-Utah), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), John Barrasso, Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), John Cornyn (R-TX), Chris Dodd (D-CT), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Lisa Murkowski (R-AS), Ken Salazar (D-CO), George Voinovich (R-OH)
NO: John Thune, Lindsey Graham, Jim Webb, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Sherrod Brown, Joe Lieberman, Dick Durbin, Mel Martinez, Orrin Hatch, Jon Kyl,
MAYBE: Jim DeMint (R-SC), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Sam Brownback
THIS WEEK'S VEEP HOPELESSES:
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
“Me being asked is so unlikely I don’t even have to waste my breath on the question.”
Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)
“The chances of that are so remote that I’m more likely to be hit by an asteroid.”
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)
“They can do a lot better than me. I just don’t see it happening. I don’t know what I’d bring to the ticket. I’d have to think about it. I don’t see how I would add much to the ticket. To give you an honest answer, I don’t know what I’d do."
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
“If I were asked, I would ask some mental health professionals to visit Barack Obama. I just think Sen. Obama is way too smart to pick me. I’m not a good pick, and he’s smarter than that. That’s why he’s going to make such a good president.”
More Quotes from Senators on the vice presidency here.
CLINTON/OBAMA UPDATE...
Much to Hillary's dismay, a website has launched calling for the "Obama-Clinton Dream Ticket" at the official-looking VoteBoth.com! "People are stopping to ask themselves, why just nominate someone who has 51 per cent of the vote, when we can nominate a ticket that has 100 per cent of the vote?" explains VoteBoth spokesman Sam Arora.
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VICEPRESIDENTS.COM EXCLUSIVE! MCCAIN NAMES DWIGHT SCHRUTE AS VEEP?
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