The word is that there is one possible vice presidential hopeful who is leading the pack and that person is ——–

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. So why does he seem to have the front position? First of all there is the old political adage of picking a running mate from a different part of the county and Romney not only has a following in Massachusetts, but his family has a big political history in Michigan, which is considered a must win state.

Then all you have to do is take a look at how he was able to raise money during the primaries. McCain was not that good at it, he was the first candidate who had to lend his own campaign money and at the same time lay off staff.

Also Mitt Romney came in third in the delegate race behind McCain and Huckabee with 271 delegates and wins in 11 states, Montana , Alaska. North Dakota. Utah, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada, Michigan, and Wyoming. Four of them are considered to be swing states – Nevada, Colorado, Minnesota and Michigan.

Huckabee did come in second with 278 delegates, but that is really not much of a difference. As for the seven states he won, Louisiana, Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, West Virginia and Iowa, only Iowa is considered to be a swing state.

McCain won 32 states and out of those 32, Pennsylvania, Florida, Indiana, New Mexico, Virginia and Missouri are considered to be swing states, so between McCain and Romney, they have won 10 out of the 11 swing states in the primaries. It would lead you to believe that with the vice presidential candidate on the ticket is the one who won the state in the primaries, the chance of Republican votes going over to the Democratic side of the ledger is pretty slim.

Also, though there is not much chemistry between the two of them, Romney did come out in support of McCain shortly after he dropped out of the race, a fact that might have given McCain an advantage in the succeeding states and Romney did drop out early, back on Feb 7th, with many states yet to go.

Chemistry does not really win elections. Just take a look back at 1960 when John Kennedy picked Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson. The two could not be more different, but Johnson came from a different section of the county, a section that was considered critical for the win and he was also the Senate Majority Leader, making him well known outside of his home state. And the result was a win in one of the closest contests in history.

Sorry Huckabee