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To: mph who wrote (261985)	8/18/2008 8:17:18 PM
From: gamesmistress	Respond to of 794011

Exclusive: McCain to name VP on Aug. 29 By MIKE ALLEN \| 8/18/08 7:31 PM EST politico.com Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) plans to celebrate his 72nd birthday on Aug. 29 by naming his running mate at a huge rally in the battleground state of Ohio, Republican sources said. That’s a week from this Friday, and the day after Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) accepts the Democratic nomination at a 70,000-person spectacular in a Denver stadium. The campaign has begun building a crowd of 10,000 for Dayton, Ohio, according to an organizer. McCain is scheduled to appear with his running mate at a large-scale event in Pennsylvania shortly thereafter. Senior Republicans are in the dark about who he’ll name, although they say former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty are prime contenders after a trial balloon by McCain gave him very negative feedback about the idea of picking a pro-choice running mate like former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge. Sources close to McCain say he has wrestled with the choice, torn between a high-stakes, high-reward pick like Ridge or Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman or a safer and more conventional selection such as Romney or Pawlenty. But McCain friends emphasized that he talks about the decision with almost no one, and could even change the announcement plans and go sooner. “McCain views this as the one decision that he has total, utter, non-negotiable control over,” one campaign official said. The announcement strategy – provided McCain doesn’t change it – calls for naming the pick early Friday morning to try to suppress Obama’s bounce coming out of his convention. “You’re going to own the weekend,” a McCain official said. The Republican convention begins the following Monday in St. Paul, Minn. McCain advisers say they don’t think it would make sense to name the pick earlier because the impact would get diluted by Obama’s selection. And since the GOP convention is second, they have the advantage of knowing the opposition ticket before showing their own cards. “You can fire the bullet once,” said one key Republican. “You want the most meaningful target.” Alex M. Triantafilou, chairman of the Hamilton County (Ohio) Republican Party, said in an exuberant post on his blog this weekend: “Sen. McCain is expected to host a rally on August 29 in Dayton and is looking for a BIG venue and for a BIG crowd. He'll get it. This is not yet public. I guess I just made it so.” The post has been removed without explanation. PolitickerOH.com reported Monday morning that the event will be at the 10,000 seat Ervin J. Nutter Center, a sports and entertainment complex at Wright State University.