Clinton delegate: 1 for 1 in Veepstakes

As the guessing games swirled around Oregon’s Democratic delegates heading to Denver on Friday as to who Barack Obama would pick for is running mate, Jack Lorts, the Hillary Clinton delegate and eastern-most representative of Oregon Democrats who was heading to Denver for the Democratic National Convention, got it right.

“I predict Joe Biden and Mitt Romney,” Lortis said Friday, after he pulled off I-84 just across the Idaho border to grab some lunch. Lorts is the only Oregon delegate driving to Denver, and expects to get there sometime Sunday.

Lorts, Fossil’s City Council president and chair of the Oregon Democratic Party’s rural caucus, was certain of his choice of Biden, but the longtime Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) supporter did think that Clinton would have been an excellent choice for Obama as well.

“I did hear on NPR this morning that his ideal vice president is someone who can take on the job of being president, and someone who had different ideas they could offer to the team,” Lorts said. “For me, that would be Hillary Clinton.”

Lorts also picked Romeny, the former Massachusetts governor, as Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s running mate. McCain is set to announce his vice presidential candidate Friday.