Media say Biden is Obama's VP pick

So I noticed I had a spam item in Gmail tonight. I took a gander.
It wasn't spam. It was a CNN news alert, 53 minutes old at the time, alerting me to the fact that numerous sources were saying that Barack Obama's vice presidential nominee will be Joe Biden of Delaware.
So much for the text-messaging plan, I guess.
It would have been neat to really be among the first to receive such historic news. But I don't know that anyone really believed it wouldn't get leaked sooner.
I just hope Obama supporters aren't too disappointed.
Then again — and I don't want to be labeled as a conspiracy theorist, so this is purely long-shot what-if — what if a few people decided to throw off the media with fake VP news? What if Biden isn't the pick, and someone else is?
Probably not, but we'll see. Come Saturday afternoon, we should all know for sure.

In other news:
• Today was filled to the brim, but great. We heard from Colorado Governor Bill Ritter this morning, a C-SPAN panel and Howard Dean. Dean was running a bit late, but one of my colleagues told me that politicians are notoriously late. I happened to look up and see him as he approached the front of the room. The room was electric. Students and professors quickly crowded around him with cameras. He worked the crowd for several minutes, participating in photo opps with eager Washington Center participants. He then spoke about the hope he sees in the generation of those students participating in the program. He also said the Democratic Party is a much more accurate representation of America's diversity than the Republican Party, whose leadership base "looks like 1950s television," meaning predominantly white and male. He lauded the power of the Internet as an agent for change and as "the most self-empowering invention since the printing press."

In his opening remarks, Dean said that "democracy is a human creation, and all human creations die if you don't nurture them." He encouraged students to continue pursuing equality in all areas of life.

• I began my fieldwork today. I walked over to the Pepsi Center from the Colorado Convention Center (actually, walked and took the Mall Ride on the 16th Street Mall). Everyone was very friendly when I was able to find its pavilion, though it took me about a half-hour, all told, to actually arrive at the lot and then ask for directions to the appropriate pavilion. The pavilions are white makeshift tents with plywood floors. I got my weekend credentials and a credential for the big media party at Six Flags Elitch Gardens on Saturday evening. Not sure if I'll be able to make it — that will depend on my work schedule — but at least I'll know that I could have gone, even if it doesn't work out. Frankly, I'm pretty excited to begin my fieldwork, and I'm looking forward to seeing what I can accomplish. The Pepsi Center is close by.
Rock on.