Politico quotes Republicans saying that McCain will announce his Vice President in Ohio, the day after Barack Obama's speech (which I just got tickets to, yay!).
The idea is to mute the momentum from Obama's speech and the convention.
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.
They're also afraid of picking first, in case Obama's pick is super-awesome.
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."
John McCain, always the responder: "I don't know, what do YOU want to do? Oh really? Your idea sucks."
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