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Obama-Bloomberg not likely
But an endorsement soon from Mayor Bloomberg would do a great deal to help wrap up the nomination for Senator Obama. This seems a reasonable scenario to expect in the next few weeks.
As others have written here, Obama will most likely pick as a VP candidate an older white man with strong foreign policy and/or military credentials. Picking a Southerner or Westerner would also make electoral college sense to me. In terms of temperment, I think that the Obama cool, intellectual approach needs to be balanced by a little bit of wild man/attack dog in the VP candidate.
So I put forward Senator Jim Webb of Virginia as a plausible candidate for second place on the Obama ticket.