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Media focusing on analyzing potential VP picks CNN's Howard Kurtz calls it a "glorified guessing game" Before 1980s, candidates typically didn't unveil VP until convention Barack Obama, John McCain staying mum on talk of running mate (CNN) -- It happens once every four years: Political pundits, news junkies and water cooler crowds obsess over whom the presidential contenders will pick to be their No. 2. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine could be in the running to be Barack Obama's VP. Asked by CNN's Howard Kurtz what drives the compulsion behind the "glorified guessing game," A. B. Stoddard, an associate editor at The Hill, said every journalist is hoping for a "James Bond moment" when he or she can be the one to expose the story. That, she said, "obviously never happens." "But it comes in a lull in the campaign -- June and July. You... [read full story]
