Election Advantage

McCain chooses former female beauty queen as running mate. 

In a startling move, John McCain chooses a female vice president candidate in Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin.

To many Republican officials, this is a shocking move, as Palin is alot less known than Mitt Romney or Giuliani.  Palin is over 20 years younger than Joe Biden and 3 years younger than Barrack Obama.

Not sure if  this is a wise move, as Alaska is not that well know. But at least the Obama campaign can not produce videos of the republican vice presidential candidate attacking the presidential candidate and vice versa.

Is it possible to not know how many houses you own?

If you are the Replublican US presidential nominee, the answer is “Yes”.

After saying the definition of rich is $5 million, Senator McCain did not know how many houses he owned when was asked that question by a reporter. He redirected the question to one of his aids, whom said it was 4 houses. But even his aid got it wrong. The total number of houses John McCain owns is 7!

Wow…the democrats and Barrack Obama are gonna have a field day with this…

Advantage? – Depends how each party spins it. (1) Democratics can say McCain is out of touch with the average American who earns about $45,000 a year. or (2) the Republicans can say that John McCain is sooo focused on serving the American Public that he doesn’t really care how many houses he owns. It the people that he cares about the most.

Who would John McCain pick as his 2008 US republican presidential running mate?

Here is the most like list of possible McCain vice presidential candidates (sorted by age, since some thing one of the John McCain’s disadvantages is his age)

Bobby Jindal, 37
Sarah Palin, 44
Tim Pawlenty, 47
John Thune, 47
Robert Portman, 52
Charlie Crist, 52
Mike Huckabee, 52
Carly Fiorina, 53
Mitt Romney, 61
Tom Ridge, 62