Romney’s choice tomorrow

Just saw this as a breaking news headline: “Mitt Romney’s campaign has announced that Romney will reveal his U.S. vice presidential nominee Saturday.”

Whenever something like this happens, I check Intrade.com to see if people are betting inside information or even news that I happen not to have heard yet.

My guess all along was Rob Portman from Ohio, but on Intrade I saw he was down to a 3% chance.

And who leads the field by a longshot, with 80%? The newly leaked favorite of recent days, PAUL RYAN of Wisconsin.

Born in 1970? Wow. He would be the first person on a major party ticket younger than I am. It had to happen someday. The country will soon be run by people I could have known as bratty little kids not that long ago.

Granted, I’ve seen Intrade wrong on heavy bets before, but that was usually with less frequently leaked choices such as Supreme Court nominations. This one is probably Ryan.

At least it won’t be that bore, Tim Pawlenty. Or someone as blatantly inept as McCain’s choice in 2008.

[ADDENDUM: Oh right, I have to add that I’m supporting Obama, in order to prevent any malicious out-of-context tweeted links. I forgot about that aspect of the web.]