ON THE TRAIL

May 25, 2008

John McCain and his weekend guests - about two dozen friends and colleagues - lunched near his Arizona vacation home yesterday. With a number of potential vice presidential choices gathered at his home for the weekend, including Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, McCain has denied the weekend hosting at his Page Springs ranch includes any running mate vetting.

Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, campaigning in Puerto Rico, each picked up a delegate in Georgia as part of state Democrats' delegation to the party's national convention in Denver. Obama picked up another delegate in Wyoming, bringing his overall delegates to 1,972 - only 54 shy of the 2,026 needed to secure the presidential nomination - to Clinton's 1,780, the AP reported. The two add-on delegates in Georgia are state party secretary Stephen Leeds, an Obama supporter, and Verna Cleveland, who was Clinton's Georgia state director. The add-on in Wyoming was state Rep. W. Patrick Goggles, who said after his selection he will support Obama at the convention. Apart from Rep. Dennis Cardoza, Obama also picked up another Californian superdelegate yesterday - Rep. Jim Costa.

Less than four months after losing the California primary to Clinton, Obama appears to be the stronger of the two Democrats in facing McCain in November, a poll of Californian voters done for the Los Angeles Times newspaper and KTLA television shows. Obama would defeat McCain by 7 points if the election were held today, the poll found, while Clinton would eke out only a 3-point victory. McCain has insisted that he will compete to win California in the fall, but most analysts think the state is too reliably Democratic.

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