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CNN STAKES OUT BAYH RESIDENCE: CNN’s website now has a live camera on the home of U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh in Washington at the top of its homepage at www.cnn.com.
HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW: HPI’s informed and reliable sources expect to know something by late this afternoon. What we’ll know then … we don’t know. .jpg)
We’ll be looking to see if Sen. Evan Bayh is still in Washington this afternoon, or whether he’ll be back here in Indiana or in Chicago this evening, where Obama is today with no public comments. Sources HPI talked with saw three windows when the much anticipated text message will go out from the Obama campaign to the millions of supporters (and eavesdroppers). Those windows are when most people will have access to their phones and blackberries without evil bosses looking over their shoulders: lunchtime today, late this afternoon (prior to network newscasts this evening), and early Saturday morning.
OBAMA CALLS VEEP CANDIDATES: Sen. Barack Obama called some people on his shortlist for the vice presidential slot Thursday night to tell them he had not selected them as a running mate, a highly placed Democratic Party source said (CNN). Sen. Barack Obama says he has decided on his running mate but is not yet ready to reveal the name. The source did not say which people got the call. Obama has told some other potential running mates over the last few weeks that he would not be choosing them.
OBAMA HUNG UP EXPERIENCE VS. CHANGE: From CNN Senior Political Analyst Gloria Borger. While making the rounds in Virginia Thursday, Sen. Obama told reporters that he’d decided on a running mate but refused to say any more. The VP choice was a difficult one for Obama, a source close to the Illinois senator tells CNN’s Gloria Borger. Specifically Obama was "very hung up on the experience versus change,” the source said, and how his message of change may conflict with a longtime Washington insider. The source doesn’t know who Obama ultimately chose, but confirms Sens. Joe Biden and Evan Bayh, along with Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine are all in the running.
‘WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO KNOW’: Barack Obama has decided on his running mate. He’s just not telling who - yet. The Democratic presidential nominee-in-waiting is publicly disclosing his choice on his own terms, getting ready to unleash text messages to supporters, perhaps as early as Friday, and present his No. 2 at a massive rally in Illinois on Saturday before a battleground-state tour. "I’ve made the selection, that’s all you’re gonna get," Obama told the Associated Press on a day in which he nonchalantly campaigned with one contender considered to be on his short list, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. The Illinois senator wouldn’t say whether he’d offered the job to his pick or when exactly he would tell the world. "Wouldn’t you like to know?" he told the AP, with a grin.
BAYH TWISTING, TWISTING …: In Indiana, political insiders and others spent a good deal of Thursday trying to divine whether the absence of an Indiana stop on Obama’s weekend schedule means the vice presidential pick won’t be Sen. Evan Bayh (Indianapolis Star). Others thought to be under consideration include Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas. Their home states aren’t on Obama’s weekend itinerary, either. Bayh worked in his Capitol Hill office Thursday and later spent time at his home in Washington. He told reporters outside he had no news to share. "Not tonight, sorry," he said. The Democratic presidential ticket will hold its first event together Saturday at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., before going on a tour of battleground states. The pair will be going to Eau Claire, Wis., on Sunday; the Quad Cities area of Iowa on Monday; Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday; and Billings, Mont., on Wednesday.
HOLE IN OBAMA SCHEDULE: Barack Obama’s big rally at the Old Illinois State Capitol in Springfield is not scheduled to begin until 2:00 p.m. That leaves a lot of unscheduled time earlier in the day. It’s a mere 3-hour drive from Bayh’s old hometown in Shirkieville, Indiana to Springfield, Illinois (Advance Indiana).
MOVEMENTS OF VEEP CANDIDATES: Kaine and Obama met privately with the governor’s staff for 15 minutes at a Richmond hotel. Afterward, Kaine said he would let the Obama campaign speak about whether the candidate asked him to be his No. 2 (MSNBC). But two people close to Kaine said the governor was still in the dark. Kaine plans to fly Friday night directly from Virginia to Denver, site of next week’s convention, three people with knowledge of the governor’s travel plans said. The plans could be changed if Kaine is told he needs to fly to Springfield, Ill., for the Saturday rally instead. Biden had a family gathering at his home Thursday afternoon, with his wife Jill, niece Missy Owens and son Beau, Delaware’s attorney general, coming and going past reporters staked outside. Sebelius, campaigning for Obama in Iowa, said being mentioned as a potential running mate is something of "an out-of-body experience." She said she would leave the announcement to the campaign.
HOWEY ON CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO: HPI’s Brian A. Howey will discuss the veepstakes with Chicago Public Radio’s Allison Cuddy at 10:04 a.m. today (Eastern time).
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