The Washington Post reports:
“There’s gale-force pressure for Obama to choose a Clinton loyalist as a running mate to heal the party but avoid putting her and her formidable baggage on the ticket,” said one Obama ally in Washington. “You hear the names [Ohio Gov. Ted] Strickland, [Indiana Sen. Evan] Bayh, and [retired general] Wes Clark almost constantly, and it’s no secret that Jim Johnson and Tom Daschle are purveyors of that wisdom.”
Of the three, Strickland probably makes the most sense as Obama tries to shore up support in the key swing state of Ohio, but the Democratic wing of the Democratic party expects Obama to pursue a 50 state strategy–picking Strickland would signal that Obama plans to fight this election on the same territory as Kerry and Gore did before him. It would be a sign of weakness, but as Dick Morris writes elsewhere in the paper, Obama is a weak candidate:
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