Though I'm not American, I find the 2008 American presidential race
to be the most fascinating in history.
And since I'm not shy about my views I'll express my opinion as to WHO Obama will
select to be his VP.

Answer: It will be a women.
No! It won't be Hillary.
Senator's Barbara Boxer of California and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland appear to me the frontrunners.
The Arizona governor cannot be discounted.
House Leader Nancy Pelosi cannot be discounted either, though she may be too liberal.

If Obama selects Senator Barbara Mikulski for VP, it would mean a boost for funding robotic deepspace
missions for NASA since both the HST headquarters and the John Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory [JHUAPL] are both located in her state, along with Martin Marietta aerospace company.

Barbara Boxer as VP would be good for space exploration too since California is home to so amny
aerospace industries and NASA facilities like Ames and JPL.

You heard it first here. [wink!]