Jindal is not a factor. He brings no electoral votes. The vp will come from a state that can help the candidate get elected.
That’s old school thinking that no longer applies. Look at the last 3 GOP VP candidates. Kemp, Cheney and Palin brought nothing to the table electorally. Cheney listed Wyoming, a 3 electoral vote state to avoid being from the state as G.W., and Palin likewise brought 3 electoral votes to the game. Jack Kemp hailed from a giant state that Republicans knew he could not and would not deliver.
You may be right. Just as Clinton pried away a few Southern states for the Democrats by choosing Gore as his running mate, Romney may end up choosing Christie or some other other non-red state RINO to fish for votes outside of GOP strongholds in the South. His dilemma is that his Mormonism, combined with his political apostasy, may not guarantee his hold on the South, so he may need to pick someone like Jindal. In addition, it's actually arguable that Romney by himself is enough of a RINO to appeal to the blue states, without needing a RINO running mate, no matter how the media attempts to paint him as this extreme conservative.
“The vp will come from a state that can help the candidate get elected.”
Agreed, neither Jindal nor Rubio do Mitt any good with numbers and they are both ineligible. All it would do is create chaos as the lawsuits would start immediately. We don’t need that going on this year. Its going to be Portman from Ohio or maybe Mcdonnell from VA or someone who can help in a swing state.