July 5


With the nation - oh, ok, the bunch of folks who follow this sort of thing - on round-the-clock veep watch, everyone has their own ideas on who it might be and how and when the decision will come.

Speculation as usual centres around Edwards, Gephardt, Vilsack, and Graham. Maybe even Evan Bayh, as an outsider...

Nice angle from the Chicago Tribune, which asks Edwards what it was like going through the process four years ago.

The Trib also reports on the GOP's new battleground of choice - optimism vs pessimism.

Meanwhile, when was the last time a candidate on a national ticket publicly stated they might vote for their opponent?

According to the Portland (Maine) Press-Herald last week, Green Party VP nominee Pat LaMarche said she would vote for Kerry if her home state was "a toss up".

She said her priority was the defeat of President Bush:

"I love my country," she said. "Maybe we should ask them that, because if (Vice President) Dick Cheney loved his country, he wouldn't be voting for himself."