As Barack Obama's search for a running mate enters the final stages, it is becoming more and more clear that whatever shot Hillary Clinton had of joining the ticket, it is now a vritual certainty that Obama will choose someone else.And now the largest of the the advocacy groups pushing Clinton for the 2nd spot have shut down:An effort to urge Barack Obama to pick former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate is shutting down under the assumption she is not a contender for the No. 2 spot. The two former Clinton staffers who started the group Vote Both say Obama's decision to offer Clinton a prime-time speaking role at the Democratic Party nominating convention and other signals suggest Obama will not chose her."Because it seems that Senator Obama has made his decision to offer the slot on the ticket to another candidate, we believe that continuing to ask him to pick Hillary is no longer helpful to our party's chances of winning in November," Adam Parkhomenko and Sam...(Read Full Post)