Running mates

[0:00]" The democratic convention opens. Next week on Monday in Denver in the delegates will be flying out to Colorado. Over the weekend -- prepared to party. And to celebrate the nominations on what's in the coronation of Barack Obama and the person whom we should know before that time is he's running mate in. WBZ political analyst Jon Keller is here everybody's got the same question. Who's going to choose what do you think would be the best choice for -- Well all hold on a second blackberries -- in this could be notes -- my wife she wants me to bring home milk. No way to an analyst was to get those emails are the supporter. Of us general well I I recited out anyway I I wanted to know when everyone else did."

[0:41]" who knows and that frankly is a little bit of -- troublesome question right now for Obama's supporters at least from the airport if you because. I don't think very many of them and I don't think very many neutral observers. Expected that Obama would be locked in a dead heat even trailing outside the margin of error in some polls. In this battle with McCain at this point in time. Everything. Has set this up to be a democratic year. All loopholes. All of the events who'd melt down George Bush's. Approval rating and of the Republican party's approval ratings. And it's just not turning out that way and the fact that it is an and the reasons why it is and our role troublesome for Democrats and they feed into I think a sense of apprehension an expectation. About who this choice is going to be it's going to be telling not just in the broader sense but in the micro sense of has this campaign got itself back on the rails."

[3:56]" I've asked you some Republican politicos whom they would least like to -- as a running mate in his almost universal consensus Hillary Clinton assuming that they're telling me the truth. Wouldn't she be the most formidable. Running mate. That he could have and the person who would do the most damage particularly among independents. To McCain candidacy."

[4:18]" Yes and overnight. In theory. She would solve one of the Obama campaign's biggest lingering problems. In spite of all the predictions that once the bruising primary battles were over and by the time they got to Denver at the party would be United in peace sweetness and light and -- chirping birds and that hasn't happened. In polls anywhere from twenty to 25%. Of women. Who supported Hillary Clinton women and others patients -- women and are saying no way they'll vote for Obama in the fall and he cannot afford to have that number -- that large column the first Tuesday in November. You would think that putting her on the ticket would solve that problem but clearly. Those insiders understand that it creates other problems. Most notably. Bringing back all the old baggage and as I said before if you're running on a platform of change and a break from the past do you really want to go back."

[6:01]" It's certainly wouldn't stunned -- and if you look at the other names on the so called short list and I wouldn't rule out a surprise but. The shortlist is -- for a reason. Evan Bayh from Indiana is -- known as a tax cutter and a staunch supporter of the death penalty. And Hillary Clinton while it may make some far more conservative listeners laugh to think of her as a centrist certainly. Outflanked. Obama to the right in her appeal to voters during the primary season. And would help him balance things out that way."

[6:37]" And if that Bill Clinton talked Democrats anything it is that if you couldn't go to the center you can you can be successful elections Obama's having problems to look at that fiasco last week and in the joint appearance with McCain. Where in his in his desire to communicate with conservative voters he looked like a -- That speaking of fiasco is the Obama campaign is immediately landed on a full public John McCain when he was asked. How many homes view and mrs. McCain on and he couldn't come up with -- said have my staff get back to you the answers either seven which is what the Obama campaign cholera and immediately on the air says two wars political dot com says it's eight if you include something that it. McCain family or Helmsley -- trust owns. How was serious is that and I think back. Two with a time that the George HW bush went through a supermarket check -- he'd never seen you PC products scanner before he -- boy isn't that neat. And millions of homemakers and shoppers across the country said he doesn't even know what a loaf of bread cost and how we get the price at the -- John McCain -- and nobody owns thirteen million dollars in realistic is that bad."

[7:46]" Not a good moment for the McCain campaign my guess -- is it to 48 -- wonder if that. The fact the news that. Yet the American electorate were -- polls in any significant way by candidates of wealth. Well no one who served in that office. In the in the last few decades would have been elected. And certainly this year they probably have to wind up voting for Ralph Nader so it's not. That much of an issue unless. You become categorized as you know some kind of country club her. Who is. This story told about old man bush in the scanner. -- had a broader resonance of someone who was just out of touch completely with the way people lived wasn't a fact of him being wealthy. As it was him being out of touch. I think McCain in the McCain campaign certainly has the snappy answer they've already gone back it Obama over the fact that he lives in. Million dollar plus home he makes millions of dollars as well and dead at his home. I got him involved that's sleaze bag Tony Rezko I think the better answer is well maybe I couldn't remember all my -- but I remember the home and lived in in Hanoi for five years -- media has done is approved former Prisoner of War to the past successfully. John killers always a pleasure thank you it's months thanks."