Jindal is Romney's best veep choice, hands down

Philip Klein, Washington Examiner

It is hard to predict who Mitt Romney will ultimately choose as his vice presidential running mate. But it is clear which pick would be the strongest: Louisiana's Republican governor, Bobby Jindal. Romney's fundamental choice is between someone exciting and potentially risky, or somebody boring and safe. A charismatic, conservative choice -- perhaps someone like Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. -- could energize a base that is unenthusiastic about Romney.
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Why I think Obama is losing

Clive Crook, Atlantic

As always Bill Galston and John Cassidy are well worth reading. In interesting new commentaries on the election, both think Obama has the edge, while emphasizing that it might be a close thing and warning Democrats against complacency. I hesitate to put my instincts up against their careful analyses, but if the election were tomorrow and I was forced to put money on one of the candidates, I'd say Romney. Why do I say this? It's not because the country is sick of Obama. He's still pretty well-liked personally (more so than his policies). Among those who aren't committed to support or oppose him regardless, my feeling is, the country still wants him to succeed.
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Watch Gujarat, the game changer

Arun Nehru, Asian Age

François Hollande taking oath as the President of France is just the beginning of major changes Europe is gearing up for. In the United Kingdom, change is already quite visible, and has been since the local body elections where as the ruling coalition of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats lost to the Labour Party. Apparently, the aam aadmi is not looking for cuts and austerity and but for growth and employment — it’s a very difficult situation for those in governance as there are no magic solutions.

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Jindal may be the answer to Romney's VP question

Scott Conroy, Real Clear Politics

People have always told Bobby Jindal to slow down. The Louisiana governor has a tendency to speak faster than his audience is able to think, so when it came time to deliver the Republican response to President Obama's first address to a joint session of Congress in 2009, the most important speech of Jindal's political life, he made sure to take it slow. What resulted was an oratorical disaster. On live national television, Jindal spoke in a jarring, singsong pitch that replaced his natural rapid-fire monotone. Even longtime friends found it difficult to concentrate on what he was saying...
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Poll forecasts bigger mandate for Modi and another shock for Congress

K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews

An intensive survey of the Gujarat electorate undertaken by LensOnNews finds that, if the elections were held now, Narendra Modi will romp home for an unprecedented third term, with a two-thirds majority possibly larger than the 127 seats he had won ten years ago in 2002. According to the LensOnNews poll, the BJP is likely to poll 50 per cent of the total votes (a gain of 1 percentage point...

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People want Abdul Kalam to become President again;

India Today

If people's choice is taken into consideration, former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam should occupy the Rashtrapati Bhavan once again. For, he emerged more popular than 15 others suggested by India Today-Ipsos poll. The missile man of India polled more votes than the likes of Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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The man for all reasons

Inder Malhotra, Indian Express

Pranab Mukherjee, the undeclared candidate for president, has formidable talent and incomparable experience. No one need be surprised by the steady surge in support for Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s election as the next incumbent of Rashtrapati Bhavan. Not only Congress’s allies in the ruling United Progressive Alliance but also others, on the opposite side of the political fence, are rallying round him. Interestingly, his own Congress party — which, in this instance, means only the party “high command"...
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