Who will it be and when will we know?

The media are very impatient to find out who will be on the both tickets. 

Obama is expected to announce this week rather than wait for the Democratic convention which starts on August 25. Waiting could have been an option because there is some anxiety among the Democrats that Hillary Clinton supporters might cause some trouble : her name will be placed into nomination, thus giving a chance to her delegates to support her through a roll-call vote. Some fear that this will cause trouble. This afternoon I was hearing commentators compare the 2008 Convention to that of 1968 that ended in dreadful violence on the streets. Making the announcement during the convention would probably have drawn attention away from the Clinton supporters. 

Who's on the top of the list? 

Joe Biden, despite his clumsy comment on Obama at the beginning of the campaign. 

Katheleen Sibelius, the governor of Kansas (although some I've heard the idea that Obama would not chose a woman other than Clinton, in order not to antagonize her supporters. 

McCain will announce his Vice-Presidential choice on the 29th, just before the start of the Republican Convention on September 1st. 

More about that when we get closer to the date. I'll just say that the idea that John McCain might pick a running mate with a pro-choice record has been bandied around. 

But now the issue of abortion is taking the center of the stage in the campaign and I think that McCain can't compromise his standing with the religious voters.