It's veepday!

Well, it's probably veepday for Obama. One thing's for sure: I'll be jumping every time my cell phone buzzes today.

(Incidentally, I've set things up so that Obama's e-mail announcement should post directly to this blog, like CNN Breaking News alerts used to. Obviously there's no way of testing this, but hopefully it'll work.)

I'm assuming, based on the reports I've read and the hints Obama has dropped, that it's either Bayh or Biden. I'm hoping for Biden. I'm guessing it's Bayh.

Apropos of which, Ben Smith writes: "Biden has been the frontrunner for quite a while in the land of baseless speculation, but keep this in mind: He's there not because of leaks from the inside, but because commentators think he's a logical choice." Yes. And, as I've said before, those "commentators" may be influenced by their own biases; an Obama-Biden ticket would clearly be great for journalists. (Case in point: David Brooks says "I hope he picked Joe Biden.")

On the other hand: "NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports that one of Biden's sons was flown in a private plane from Maine to the Senator's home in Delaware on Wednesday. Biden is 'gathering the clan,' she said." So maybe it is Biden! Or, you know, maybe that one data point is a complete coincidence.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that sources close to the McCain campaign "floated a wild-card choice" for veep on the GOP ticket: "Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander in Iraq." But Halperin says it's probably Romney. we probably won't know for about another week or so.