Crowley, never pay attention to Jim Wooten: Anyone who's read the AJC the last decade knows he's practically an official mouthpiece of the state GOP: Of course he'll say Obama won't carry Georgia!  Look for an open minded Atlanta scribe like Cynthia Tucker, Bill Shipp, or Jim Galloway.  Wooten's nothing but a party hack who hasn't had an original position in years.

Obama may be closer to nailing down several states in November than anyone can predict in July or August. I doubt if the polls during convention week will indicate which states could be toppled by the VP choice.  No, the "Which person could carry a single state?" is not a factor in the Obama calculation. That recipe demands 1.) Knowing which state will or will not require the boost and 2.) The guarantee that the match between that hypothetical need and a person with the greatest potential can be determined months ahead of time.

Predicting the outcome of two unknowns will govern a choice? No, a currently unknown state that may need of a push months from now along with the uncertainty that one can predict which person can do that would be the poorest bet to place now.  

Barack is a smarter gambler than that. He won't put that much on the table now, not based on the cards he won't even be holding until November.

"Crowley, never pay attention to Jim Wooten: Anyone who's read the AJC the last decade knows he's practically an official mouthpiece of the state GOP: Of course he'll say Obama won't carry Georgia! "

In that case wouldn't he encourage the Dems to waste the VP selection.

"In that case wouldn't he encourage the Dems to waste the VP selection."

He's not that crafty, Stan.

Wooten or no, the last time Sam Nunn won a statewide election in Georgia:

1990

Do we really need further information or analysis to judge the degree to which Nunn is a terrible, awful, no-good choice for VP?

On the update part:  what in the heck is a "vice-presidential gaze"???