Romney VP search begins

[Mr. Morden]

I doubt that Romney would pick a New England running mate. It might annoy Southerners to some degree.

I doubt it.  Outside of one's home state, people don't seem to care much about what region running mates come from anymore.  I'd bet a substantial number of voters don't even know what states the candidates are from.

There are definitely reasons for not picking Ayotte, but "She's from New England" seems like the least important.

[Mr. Morden]

Anyone else catch Rubio's interview with Candy Crowley this morning?

He seemed to back-track from his previous promise to automatically reject a VP offer...

He now says that he won't give any more confirmations or denials because he wants to "respect the process":

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/22/sen-marco-rubio-r-fl-im-going-to-be-respectful-of-the-vp-process/

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This comes after, as I posted in the Intrade thread, Rubio made what sounded like a firm denial of interest in the vice presidency, but then made a Freudian slip that got people wondering just how genuine his denial really was:

http://www.politico.com/multimedia/video/2012/04/rubios-vp-freudian-slip.html