Maybe by the time you read this, Barack Obama will have chosen his running mate.  Then again, maybe he wants to wait a few more hours and see how much of a frenzy he can work political news junkies into on a Friday.

It was a back and forth kind of Thursday, as Obama teased his traveling press corps, letting them know that he has made his decision.

The Democrat campaigned in Virginia with Gov. Tim Kaine, one of those rumored to be on the Obama short list.

Depending on what story you read, it was easy to surmise that Kaine was out of the running (his slumped shoulders giving it away after a meeting with Obama) or that he was still very much in the mix.

In Washington, D.C., it seemed that the Joe Biden Bandwagon was getting a lot more backing during Thursday.

Biden certainly offers a lot of experience on some key issues, as he has been chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Relations panel.

The other Senator supposedly under observation is Sen. Evan Bayh, former Governor of Indiana and son of Sen. Birch Bayh.

If Obama chooses Biden, he gets a lot of experience, as well as someone who does have a tendency to say things a bit too bluntly.  It's one thing to do that as a Senator, it's another to do that as a Vice Presidential nominee.

If Obama chooses Bayh, it seems like a very safe pick, unless there is something terrible out there that no one else knows about.  Bayh is a nice enough fellow, though he seems unable to put a suit on when the Senate is in session on a weekend.

Biden meanwhile, is a man of cufflinks and very nice suits.  As I wrote the other day, he commutes by train from Delaware to DC each day and then waits outside the train station for an aide to pick him up and drive him the three blocks to his office.

If Obama picks either the Governor of Virginia or the Governor of Kansas, I would expect a lot of questions to be asked, especially about the lack of foreign policy experience of that team.

Obama-Biden seems like the pick to many.

When informed of this, my wife was left speechless.

"Maybe," she said, "maybe there will be a longshot."

Maybe.