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...room. "I know the one person he trusts the most is me," she says. "And so when it comes right down to it, particularly in the job we're doing now, we have to rely on each other." So as he made a final decision on a running mate, would it come down to just the two of them in the room? She gives a small smile and nods...
...could simply be playing the media, pretending to be undecided in order to generate a little more ink about him on a day that's meant to be all about his opponent. Sources close to the Arizona Senator say he's almost certainly already decided on a running mate, but that the circle of people who know the decision remains tiny - probably just his top campaign aides Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis, and presumably his wife Cindy. "This is very tightly held," says an adviser who has been boxed out of Veep discussions. "McCain doesn't like to be forced...
Indeed, from the beginning of the campaign, McCain has consistently made his time in captivity a feature of his stump speech. On tours through New Hampshire and Iowa, he told a cycle of stories: a tale about a prison mate who was caught and beaten for sewing an American flag, and one about a North Vietnamese prison guard who drew a cross in the dirt to demonstrate to McCain his Christian faith. He has also described in some detail the painful rope bonds that his captors would tie him in overnight...
...event has turned out to involve big risks, well, Obama likes big risks. This is a man who, with the cameras rolling in Afghanistan, elected to fire a basketball from 3-point range rather than move in for a layup. Who chose as his running mate Senator Joseph Biden, a verbal thrill ride who might say anything at any moment and very frequently does. Who - and this is the biggie - decided with just a couple of years in the Senate under his belt to take on the Clinton machine in a battle for control of the Democratic Party...
Could John McCain really not have settled yet on a running mate, just 24 hours before he's scheduled to unveil his choice at a big rally in Dayton, Ohio? That's what he said in a radio interview today. It's certainly possible. McCain is an instinctive politician, known to make decisions privately and then spring them on his aides as a fait accompli. If the presumptive GOP nominee is having a hard time making up his mind - or if he's considering whether to roll the dice by making a dramatic, unexpected choice - he could be keeping...