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Two-ticket man?

Justin Webb | 22:13 UK time, Friday, 23 May 2008

Bloomberg for Vice President? The advantage of this rumour is that he could fit either bill - could he be on both tickets simultaneously? What's to stop it...? The founding fathers - with their hatred of party affiliations - would rather approve, I suspect. He could hold meetings at which he spoke warmly of Obama's hopefulness and McCain's cholesterol level. 2008 is capable of anything.

I am not sure how easy it is to get to the Wall St Journal opinion pages without paying but if this link works Peggy Noonan is magisterial in her debunking of the notion that Hillary has been beaten by misogyny.

This is an interesting point about the consequences of the decision the Democratic party makes about Florida and Michigan on May 31st.

Meanwhile small towns in South Dakota have days of which they never could have dreamed, which is a good thing for democracy in America, whatever its short term effects on the Democrats...

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