Palin?

REPORTS: ROMNEY, PAWLENTY OUT

from The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME

NBC, FOX say Romney isn’t McCain’s veep choice. Mixed reports about whether he’ll be in Dayton with McCain.

Pawlenty tells Minneapolis radio he won’t be there. Says it’s “a fair assumption” he isn’t McCain’s No. 2.

Drudge also says “no Romney,” suggests Palin is the pending choice.

A Gulfstream IV arrived in Middletown, Ohio from Anchorage, Alaska Thursday night.

Middletown is right outside Dayton.

CNN: Someone who works at the airport says a woman and two children got off the plane and into white vans, calling it a very “secretive” flight. Palin has two teenaged sons among her five children.

Developing....