Who won the vice presidential debate? Jeff Greenfield says it was Martha Raddatz—and the voters.
Hey girl, there’s a new politics-meets-Ryan meme in town.
"Wherever I go, and it’s been very strange, I can’t tell — because I’m a pretty open person — but I can’t tell anybody about this at all. My children and husband are really kind of upset, because they — they’ll start — I can sort of tell they’re plotting against me, and they’ll have like — dinner table — just a casual conversation, ‘Gee, who would be a good VP?’ And I just sit there silently."
Today’s veepstakes update. —Chris Moody
Mitt Romney has declined to say much about his vice presidential search, but the Republican nominee’s wife offered a new clue: he’s considering a woman.
“We’ve been looking at that,” Ann Romney told CBS News, when asked if her husband should pick a female as his No. 2. “I’d love that option as well. So, you know, there’s a lot of people that Mitt is considering right now.”
In the Senate, Rob Portman of Ohio, Marco Rubio of Florida, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and John Thune of South Dakota commonly appear on lists of possible running mates. Scorecards that measured voting records in 2011 suggest that among these, Rubio had the most conservative voting record and Portman the most moderate. Ayotte and Thune came in somewhere in between.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said Tuesday he has not turned in vetting documents to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, one of the first steps to becoming a vice presidential running mate.
“Nope,” McDonnell told Chuck Todd during an interview on “The Daily Rundown” when asked if he “has had to turn anything over to the Romney campaign.” “But I’m going to do everything I can to help him in Virginia.”
McDonnell, who has campaigned with Romney in Virginia and is considered a possible vice presidential candidate, has been coy about his chances to join the national ticket, but said the speculation was “flattering.”
“I’m not campaigning for any office,” he said.
Grover Norquist endorses Bobby Jindal as Romney’s running mate:
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist is encouraging Mitt Romney to choose Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as his running mate.
In an op-ed published in Politico and co-authored by Patrick Gleason, ATR’s director of state affairs, they outlined the case for Jindal, pointing to his overhaul of the state education system, a commitment he made never to raise taxes and his work with energy companies, particularly oil and gas, which have a strong presence of the state’s Gulf coast.
Chris Christie says he may end up as Mitt Romney’s running mate:
Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, has been careful to say that he is not “campaigning” to become Mitt Romney’s running mate, the 2012 vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party. But he’s certainly open to the possibility that he would accept the job.
During a visit Monday to a high school in Plainsboro, N.J., Christie said he could be convinced to join the Republican presidential ticket.
“He might be able to convince me,” Christie said in reference to Romney, according to Matt Katz of the Philadelphia Inquirer. “He’s a convincing guy.”
