Tropical Storm EDOUARD
It appears the storm will hit the Houston/Texas coast sometime Tuesday. We’ll probably get rain that night. The National Hurricane Center predicts Edouard’s course.
All eyes on TX-10
The DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) is eyeing TX-10 (the congressional district I live in).
The DCCC’s intrest, and their money, will spice up the race between incumbent Michael McCaul (R) and tv personality Larry Joe Doherty (D). McCaul won by 15 percentage points 2006, and is sure to be a much closer race in 2008.
It is unlikely, however, that the challenger will defeat McCaul – even with the DCCC’s attention.
CQ Politics rates the race ‘Republican Favored‘
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No Veep for Romney or Clinton???
One month ago a McCain/Romney vs Obama/Clinton presidential race seemed plausible.
Today, this seems less likely.
Mitt Romney seems to believe that the animosity between himself and John McCain is enough to keep him off the Republican presidential ticket. In an interview on WILM-AM he said,
“I think there’s some great people he could choose from and I expect he will do that. But I don’t plan on being part of the ticket.”
Perhaps he is being suave, but I believe he really thinks he will not be chosen.
In addition, the advocacy group established to pressure Barack Obama to pick Hillary Clinton as his running mate has shut down.
“Because it seems that Senator Obama has made his decision to offer the slot on the ticket to another candidate, we believe that continuing to ask him to pick Hillary is no longer helpful to our party’s chances of winning in November,” two former Clinton staffers wrote in an e-mail to the group they started, ‘Vote Both.’
It appears Mitt Romney MAY not be McCain’s running mate and Hillary Clinton WILL NOT be Obama’s running mate.
Hopefully VP announcements will be made in the next week.
McCain Ready to pick his Veep?
John McCain is “in a position to make the decision [about his VP] on short notice if he wanted to.” according to one of McCain’s top advisers, Charles Black.
I’m reading from this that McCain has picked his VP choice, but hasn’t asked him or her to actually be his running mate. But perhaps he’s already asked and is waiting to announce his choice.
There’s a big issue of timing here.
The Olympics start in twelve days (08.08.08). The Democratic Convention starts the day after the Olympics end (08.25.08). The Republican Convention starts four days after the Dems end (09.01.08).
Insiders are saying Barack Obama will announce before the Olympics start, and John McCain will announce soon (maybe before Obama announces).
All-in-all, we don’t really know when either candidate will announce, but it will be sooner rather than later.