Will it Romney? Pawlenty?? Or even…Lieberman???
My guess is it’ll be Romney, but here’s some good reasoning why it may not be the well-heeled former Governor…
Mr. Romney remained the most talked-about possibility on Wednesday among Republican Party officials and on cable television, not least because of the theory that he would help Mr. McCain win Michigan, [...]

Joe Biden left the Presidential Race on January 3rd, adamantly refusing to consider the #2 spot on any ticket. But by June, he had reconsidered, telling NBC’s Meet the Press, “If the presidential nominee thought I could help him win — am I going to say to the first African-American candidate about to make history [...]

You can tell a lot about a person by their marital relations and the company he keeps… just ask John Edwards! Only, this story isn’t about John Edwards. (Don’t you know the media’s not allowed to speak of that?!) This story is about a supportive spouse, Jill Biden.

Three years before she even met him personally, Jill voted [...]

That’s the buzz coming from Denver, via Ambinder.
As I mentioned earlier in the day, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman could do numerous things to help McCain, not the least of which is act as a Hillary surrogate for many of those security moms and independent women who saw Hillary as the true candidate for “change.”
Also, [...]

MSNBC provides the Cliff Notes version of the Senator’s life and times…

Mark my words…as much as McCain and his campaign talk about his time as a POW, Biden and the Obama campa will talk about him riding that train home every night.

Honestly, I think he’ll now have to go with somebody like Romney and not Pawlenty, or else risk Biden eating a less experienced debater for lunch.
Here’s some more speculation…

One thing’s for sure…the candidate will have to be pro-life or else enough of the evangelicals will stay home to basically clinch this for the Dems. So [...]

Not that many were expecting a bounce from the Biden news, but the Obama camp can’t like the news that these numbers hint at.

The details…
Typically, presidential candidates have gotten a bump in the polls after naming their vice presidential running mate. Obama apparently received no immediate benefit in the polls from naming Biden as Gallup [...]

With leaners
Obama - 48%
McCain - 45%
Without leaners
Obama - 46%
McCain - 43%
Obama gains one today, and this is the first time since Berlin that he has enjoyed a 3 point lead in the “with leaners” numbers.
Rasmussen talks about voters’ reaction to the Biden announcement…
Yesterday, Obama announced that Joe Biden will be his running mate and the [...]

Are you a Hillary supporter who’s furious that Obama picked an old white guy for his Veep instead of the former First Lady?
Then this ad is for you…

On one hand it can be seen as a shrewd move aimed at the independent female voter or “security moms” who considered Hillary to be their own [...]

Does anybody honestly believe that somebody who hasn’t even endorsed McCain yet will take his Veep spot? Because, as of right now, many of the things that Powell has said about the candidates hints at a quiet endorsement for Obama.
Still, Politico puts the meme out there…
Retired Gen. Colin Powell is among the potential running mates [...]

Here it is…

As always, thanks to MSNBC for providing such a high quality, embeddable player.

With leaners
Obama - 48%
McCain - 46%
Without leaners
Obama - 45%
McCain - 42%
The numbers jump a bit for Obama today, but we haven’t seen impact of the Biden announcement yet. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the next couple days before the convention.
Rasmussen shares some data about the Veep nominee…
Biden—who had been the frontrunner all [...]

Key quotes, “A lot of Democrats in Washington are sort of breathing a collective sigh of ‘Phew’,” “Joe Biden’s nobody’s #2″ and “This guy ran for President when Barack Obama was in law school.”

Todd also points out something very astute about the McCain camp’s Biden ad and poses the question of whether this essentially disqualifies [...]

Since it leaked hours in advance, this was inevitable.
At 3:44 a.m., the text message reads as such (if you can’t read it above for some reason)…
Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3PM ET on www.BarackObama.com. Spread the word!
And now I can go to [...]

I can understand the news organizations getting their hands on the info, but One.org? This is supposed to be a non-partisan organization devoted to fighting AIDS?
Here are a couple of screenshots from an email they just sent me…
First, the one that talks about Biden explicitly:

Then the non-committal postcard:

So much for that text message…

The title of their article is this, “Official: Obama picks Biden for veep.”
Well, it doesn’t get more “official” than that.
So Donklephant readers…you get the news before the text message…
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama selected Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware late Friday night to be his vice presidential running mate, according to a Democratic official, [...]

Ambinder lays them out…
PLUSES:
I gather that Obama realizes that he needed a pick that would demonstrate some level of intellectual seriousness about the condition of the world. One of his sons heads for Iraq soon. Obama knows that, for Biden, getting Iraq right is much more than just about proving a point.
Biden is also a [...]

What must be running through his head right now? I mean, this is it. This is his shot. What does one think about at a time like this?
Of course, if Obama gets elected and reelected, Biden would be 73 at that point, so he’s probably not going to run for President. In other words, “VP” [...]

The AP is reporting that the pick is less than 24 hours away…
Late Friday, several officials said the text message announcement would be distributed Saturday morning, a few hours before a scheduled rally at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., where the Democratic ticket would appear for the first time.
Add to that the news [...]

Good and good. Neither of them would have added anything to the ticket.
From MSNBC:
EMPORIA, Va - Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine have been told by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign they will not be his vice presidential choice, NBC News reported on Friday, quoting sources.
Speculation about Obama’s choice has centered [...]