A day after his historic speech in Denver, Presidential hopeful Barack Obama and his running mate Senator Joe Biden hit the campaign trail via a bus tour. Their first stop was Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the duo will continue the bus tour for the next few days to gain ground in key battleground states.

On Friday, Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his surprise choice for running mate.

McCain met Palin at a Washington meeting of the National Governors Association in February, discussed the position by phone on Sunday offered her the No. 2 spot on Thursday at his home in Arizona. Many are calling this move a “considerable gamble” considering he and most Americans barely know her and just two years ago she was mayor of a small Alaskan town.

When Obama announced Biden as his running mate and the McCain campaign launched an ad asking why was Hillary passed over, I couldn’t help but think that McCain would probably choose a woman. I just had no idea it would be someone so far-fetched. The McCain campaign has always remarked of Obama’s experience or lack thereof, but Palin is even less experienced than the first-term Illinois senator.

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