Larry King is doing a poll RIGHT NOW.  Results will be announced at the end of the show. We have less than an hour to vote.  If this diary gets on the rec list, enough people will vote that we can have an impact.  The question is Can Hillary Rebound?  So far 60% say No.  Vote here:

http://www.cnn.com/...

Obama should pick Pelosi as VP for several reasons.

#1) She will help him among women voters (especially professional woman who admire a woman who made it to the top without relying on their husband)

#2) She will help him among older voters

#3) She will help him among traditional democrats

#4) She will help him among Catholic voters that have been holding Obama back.

Barbara Boxer would also work in all of these respects, in addition to helping him solidify his anti-war credentials, but I suspect she would make the ticket too liberal.  Hillary is the obvious choice for VP, but her negatives are typically over 50%.  Oprah might work well, but she already served her purpose in delivering the black female vote in record numbers, and it's now time for Obama to reach out to other demographics.  Which brings us to Bill Richardson.  The Hispanic vote will be pivotal, but I'm not sure if Richardson has the clout to do deliver Hispanics the way Oprah delivered black women.  Do most Hispanics even know he's Hispanic?

Another possibility is Elizabeth Edwards.  Gets the female vote, helps with working class rural whites, helps with voters who have or know someone with cancer.

"If Clinton wins by more than ten points, which was her margin in neighboring Ohio and New Jersey, her campaign will have new momentum and she will soldier on," said Bill Schneider, also a CNN senior political analyst.
"If Clinton wins by single digits, we're in a political twilight zone. Nothing changes."

http://www.cnn.com/...

I see no evidence of a pro-Obama media bias.  The NY Times, the most influential newspaper in America endorsed Hillary. You have Paul Krugman slamming Obama every single week. You have CNN giving airtime to professional Clinton shills James Carville and Paul Begalis, and James Carville appearing on Meet the Press every week.  You had CNN declaring Hillary the winner of every debate all summer long even when their own focus groups declared Obama the winner. You had CNN annalists siding with Hillary over the whole debate about meeting with foreign leaders.

More below:

Barack Obama towers as the most far left progressive person running for president. And this isn’t the spin of some enthusiastic supporter (in fact I’ve been leaning a bit towards Edwards since Michael Moore praised him), this is the objective assessment of the prestigious and authoritative National Journal which examined the totality of each candidates actual votes in three broad areas: Social issues, economic issues, and foreign policy issues.  When life time scores were compiled by the New York Times political blog, amazingly Obama towered over even ultra progressive Kucinich.

Senator Barack Obama......................84.3
Representative Dennis Kucinich........79.4
Senator Christopher J. Dodd .............79.2
Senator Hiliary Rodham Clinton ......78.8
Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr...............76.8

Source:  http://www.majorityrules.org/...