What I'm finding hard to believe is that we'll actually have final answers to the running-mate questions soon, one within about a week and the other just another week later.

This campaign has been going on for SO l-o-o-o-n-g that I've become entirely accustomed to thinking about the eventual outcome as being in the far-far distant future. And the VP choices, as well, have been a matter of distant specualtion for an awful long time, so long that it's difficult to readjust to the idea that time has finally (almost) come to finalize them.