If you're looking for a timeframe when Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama announce their picks for running mates, think early August.
The Obama campaign would like their pick to be after McCain's if possible to give them a nice run up to the Democratic convention in late August. Of course, McCain would prefer to name his choice after Obama to mitigate any bounce his Democratic rival gets from the announcement.
However, the Olympics begin in Beijing on August 8 and run about two weeks. Therefore, both campaigns will have a limited window to announce their picks and will probably try to do it in the first week of August.
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Huh? what possible difference does it make that there are Olympics in China, to announce a veep pick?
Also in Siberia there is a total eclipse of the sun this August. I hope they both avoid that too.
or perhaps this is a leak -- Obama is picking Michael Phelps?
You heard it here first.
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Posted by: markief3
| June 26, 2008 9:42 AM
The reason is that they want to get all of the headlines. If they wait until the Olympics are on-going, they won't get them. However, another possibility for Obama would be to do what Stevenson did in 1956 and let the convention choose. That would be a good way of doing it if he is comfortable with Hillary as the choice since, I expect, she would get the nomination. It has the virtue of creating some drama for the convention that has been missing for years.
Posted by: cwlidz
| June 29, 2008 8:49 PM
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