It really only takes one or two renegades to shake things up though. I mentioned Teddy Roosevelt bolting the Republican convention with his delegates as an example of the sort of thing that would rock everybody's world.

What would do it this year?

Dunno. If you have McCain on the Republican side, he could actually do quite a bit to rock the Republican party.

Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are extremely distraught about McCain being the nom. They can't bully him into their way of playing the game, so it will definitely get interesting.

I'm wondering if McCain won't choose a woman running mate from the Republican Main Street Partnership, like Susan Collins.

Or what if he chose a Democrat to run with him?

Then what would happen to the race?

I see McCain as much more likely to do something like that to shake up the race and get people paying attention to him. Much more likely he will shake up the race than the Dems will, in spite of the "historic" candidacy crap.