WE'VE MOVED! Democratic Convention Watch is now at http://www.DemocraticConventionWatch.com
While the McCain veep watch is nowhere near as fun as the Obama veep watch, the latest is that Romney is in Boston, Pawlenty is in St. Paul, and Sarah Palin is home in Alaska. Funny thing, no one seems to be tracking McCain. He's supposed to be on his way to Dayton, but I haven't heard anything.
While waiting for the announcement, we're also all watching Gustav. The path has not changed appreciably since the last time Matt posted the map. Haley Barbour, co-chair of the RNC Convention Committee has returned to Mississippi, where he's governor. Bobby Jindal is back in Lousisana where he is governor. And while there is fun in citing all the Republican candidates who have begged off the GOP convention next week for being "too busy", it's right and proper that leaders in potential devastation zones go home to prepare.
So what of John McCain? Halperin thinks he ought to skip Dayton, and head to New Orleans to deal with Gustav. He has art....
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Dan · 865 weeks ago
That, and all those Hillary voters are going to be even more pissed at McCain thinking that just any woman would be a substitute for their girl
Kenny · 865 weeks ago
What is the policy towards delaying the Convention? I know that a lot of work has been done on the Xcel down the street (literally, I live of West 7th) in the past month or so as well as the remainder of St. Paul. I figured there was some legal obligation to have it at the specified time. Do the Republicans (or for that matter the Democrats) purposely schedule lee-way for events like this? I'm pretty sure the businesses, hotels, etc wouldn't be terribly pleased to hear that the Convention is delayed. I figured that this stuff was set in some kinda metaphorical stone.
Matt 75p · 865 weeks ago
Dan_in_upstate_NY · 865 weeks ago
Here's what I'm thinking (or hoping for). President Bush, I would guess, really WANTS to speak at the convention. And who can really tell him not to? So perhaps there's a possibility here that his speech would be postponed until Tuesday or Wednesday...in other words...a day or so closer to McCain's speech, and perhaps on the same day as Palin's speech. And how awesome would that be for reminding the country of why the GOP is bankrupt?