Veepstakes alert

Speculation is in full throttle concerning who the candidates for president will choose as their vice-presidential running mates. Here is just one example.

Remember two things: first, all the speculating now doesn't mean a thing. The candidates won't choose anyone now, or even try to come to a decision now. They want the speculating to continue. Because that means attention is being paid to them, and attention is good for a campaign.

Second: history shows us that vice-presidential choices are largely all about who will help win the fall campaign. Keep that metric in mind when you try to predict who will be chosen.

Note on party "unity"

Have you noticed?

Every national figure who is a Democrat is going on TV these days goes on and on about how "unified" the party is and about how the Hillary and Obama folks are all going to love each other to death all fall.
Fact: political parties who are truly united...
...don't have to have their spokespersons saying how united they are every five seconds.