| 11:32 PM: | VP Rumors: Obama-Bayh. The travelling press has been notified they'll be spending 21 hours - an exceptionally long campaign stop - in one small midwestern city starting Tuesday evening. The city? South Bend, Indiana. Open Left. | |
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| 11:28 PM: | Veep Watch: An Indiana lay over. Nothing's on Obama's schedule yet, but the traveling press registration e-mail has us flying to South Bend at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and not leaving until 3:25 p.m. the next day. MSNBC. | |
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| 11:17 PM: | Hail to the Twitterer. Should the computing habits of a nominee have any bearing at all on his fitness to be commander in chief? NYT. | |
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| 7:05 PM: | McCain is vetting Cantor. With Kaine a potential Obama VP pick, there could be an all-Virginia vice presidential debate. Politico. | |
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| 7:00 PM: | Bobby Jindal for GOP Convention Keynote Speaker. A bit ago I created a Facebook group petitioning to make Bobby Jindal the GOP Convention keynote speaker. I hadn't checked in on it in a while. Much to my surprise, it's now grown to 481 members. That's a lot for a sort of insidery issue like this. Patrick Ruffini. | |
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| 3:49 PM: | Obama agrees to 3 debates with McCain. Obama agreed on Saturday to a formal proposal for three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate, effectively scuttling Republican White House rival John McCain's hopes for a series of one-on-one town hall meetings. Reuters. | |
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| 3:48 PM: | McCain: The original political celebrity. If Barack Obama has of late given new meaning to the term 'political celebrity,' then John McCain helped define it years ago. Politico. | |
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| 3:47 PM: | McCain asks Va. congressman for records. U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia has been asked for "personal documents" by John McCain's campaign. USA Today. | |
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| 3:17 PM: | Obama calls McCain campaign 'cynical' Democratic candidate Barack Obama said Saturday that Republican rival John McCain's campaign is not racist but is cynical in trying to divert voter attention from the real issues of the presidential campaign. MSNBC. | |
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| 2:00 PM: | 2008 vote could help Dems get Senate majority. As if Sen. Ted Stevens didn't have enough problems, Sen. Barack Obama might add to them. CNN. | |
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| 1:59 PM: | Gallup Daily: McCain, Obama Remain Tied. Barack Obama and John McCain each receive 44% of the vote in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking presidential trial heat of nationwide registered voters. This is the second consecutive day the candidates have been exactly tied. Gallup. | |
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| 1:55 PM: | Republicans are trying to depict Obama as a pompous, out-of-touch snob. As surely as the swallows come back to Capistrano, the political class has returned to one of its favorite diversions: deciding which past presidential candidates the current presidential candidates most resemble. Slate. | |
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| 1:55 PM: | Obama agrees to 3 debates with McCain. Asked by The Associated Press if that meant Obama would not agree to any other debates, Psaki said, "We're not saying that." She said the McCain campaign had rejected Obama's proposal for two joint town hall meetings. USA Today. | |
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| 1:09 PM: | McCain Blows the Dog Whistle. Obama, dog whistles the ad, hitting old racists in the sweet spot, could fuck these white girls â€" it's practically a Democratic tradition … JFK, Clinton, heck even Carter lusted in his heart â€" and we don't want that, now, do we? Guardian. | |
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| 9:31 AM: | McCain and N.Y. Times continue a long-running bout. It is a tradition at many kitchen tables to yell at the newspaper. At John McCain's kitchen table, it is becoming a tradition to yell at one paper in particular: The New York Times. AP. | |
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| 9:16 AM: | Democrats exact price from Bush for war. They did not end the Iraq war or tackle $4-a-gallon gas. But the Democratic-run Congress created programs this year to educate veterans and feed and house the poor. Democrats also cuts deals with a weakened GOP president to send voters some economic help. AP. | |
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| 9:16 AM: | McCain: “People Aren't Just Choosing a Motivational Speaker†"Washington is full of talented talkers. And Senator Obama is one of the best to come along in quite a while. But good speeches aren't everything in politics." Mark Halperin. | |
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| 9:14 AM: | Analyst Sees Close U.S. Electoral Vote. New polls show the presidential race is looking close nationally and in swing states. Charles Cook of the Cook Political Report says it's too soon to use polls to predict the outcome of the race. The Electoral College vote will be closer than the popular vote. NPR. | |
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| 9:14 AM: | Obama: McCain Camp Is Cynical, Not Racist. Obama rejected the McCain campaign's claim that he had injected racial politics into the contest, adding that cynicism not racism motivated the Republicans' recent attacks. WSJ. | |
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| 9:13 AM: | Obama: Slavery apology, reparations not enough. Obama opposes offering reparations to the descendants of slaves, putting him at odds with some black groups and leaders. CNN. | |
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| 7:42 AM: | John McCain wants the White House in the worst way. By the time McCain spoke up feebly against the Swift boat campaign, the damage had been done -- to him as well as to Kerry. He had undergone a public transformation into a willing instrument of lesser men who trampled on his character and his honor, even his patriotism, just as his campaign is now seeking to do to Obama. Salon. | |
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| 5:30 AM: | Op-Ed Columnist: Running While Black. Gee, I wonder why, if you have a black man running for high public office — say, Barack Obama or Harold Ford — the opposition feels compelled to run low-life political ads featuring tacky, sexually provocative white women who have no connection whatsoever to the black male candidates. Bob Herbert. | |
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| 5:23 AM: | Tie goes to Obama. A look at how the electoral college could knot at 269 in the first tie since 1800, and what would happen if it does. Politico. | |
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