| 10:45 PM: | New Quinnipiac Numbers Out Tuesday. The University polling institute will unveil their latest head-to-heads in the presidential race early Tuesday morning. Mark Halperin. | |
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| 10:41 PM: | Democrats Get Big Gift for Denver. Tom Golisano, the Rochester, N.Y., billionaire and registered Republican, donated $1 million to the host committee of the Democratic Party's convention in Denver. NYT. | |
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| 10:40 PM: | Bob Woodward to reveal 'The War Within' The book's revelations may propel a reexamination of the Iraq war just as the presidential election is taking off. Politico. | |
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| 8:21 PM: | McCain uses vets meeting to rap Obama on Iraq. Republican John McCain criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama on Monday for trying to "legislate failure" in Iraq because he did not support an increase in U.S. troops fighting the war or a boost in their funding. USA Today. | |
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| 6:46 PM: | Illinois: Obama Still Holds Double-Digit Lead at Home. Barack Obama remains comfortably ahead of his Republican presidential rival John McCain -- 53% to 38% -- in his home state of Illinois, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state. Rasmussen. | |
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| 6:36 PM: | Exclusive: McCain to name VP on Aug. 29. That's a week from Friday, and the day after his rival, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, accepts the Democratic nomination at a 70,000-person spectacular in a Denver stadium. Politico. | |
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| 6:31 PM: | Why Barack Obama Isn't Doing Better in the Polls. What makes Obama's task of scoring white votes at Kerry-Gore levels so formidable is, to put it bluntly, racial prejudice. New York Mag. | |
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| 6:24 PM: | Biden? Yeah, That Works. Biden has a deep and impressive resume: Not only is he the guy who orchestrated the defeat of Robert Bork back in the 1980s, but he can also claim among his legislative accomplishments the Violence Against Women's Act, which is no small feat. He's smart, articulate, and is a bona fide expert on foreign policy: In other words, he's certainly capable of assuming the presidency in an emergency, which is really the most important criteria of all. New Republic. | |
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| 5:42 PM: | Obama Appears Ready to Announce His Running Mate. Senator Barack Obama has all but settled on his choice for a running mate and set an elaborate rollout plan for his decision, beginning with an early morning alert to supporters, perhaps as soon as Wednesday morning, aides said. NYT. | |
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| 4:15 PM: | Democrats Must Nix Offensive Bloggers. The list of credentialed blogs include radical sites like The Daily Kos. Worse are blogs that feature anti-Catholic and obscene material. The two most offensive are Bitch Ph.D. and Towleroad. Catholic League. | |
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| 4:12 PM: | Obama Ready to Announce His VP. The NYT newsroom was buzzing late Monday afternoon after Obama-beat reporter Jeff Zeleny learned how the Dem hopeful has now finalized his choice for a running-mate. Drudge. | |
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| 4:03 PM: | Candidates, Journalists Share RSS Stories on Google Power Readers Site. Google today launched a new site dubbed Power Readers in Politics, and the McCain and Obama campaigns are using it to highlight news stories and blog posts, sharing content on behalf of their candidates. The Hill. | |
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| 3:50 PM: | Cindy McCain's Half Sister 'Angry' She's Hidden. The Portalskis live in a modest home in central Phoenix. Kathleen is retired, as is her husband. Nicholas Portalski is a firefighter and emergency medical technician looking for work. They say it would have been nice if they were left some of the Hensley fortune. They also say they are Democrats, but Nicholas Portalski says he had another reason for coming forward. NPR. | |
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| 3:46 PM: | "Harry And Louise" Are Back In New Ads. A series of political ads starred the fictional couple Harry And Louise back in 1994. Now, the two are back asking the presidential contenders to make health care their top domestic priority. CBS. | |
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| 2:36 PM: | McCain Outspending Obama By Hundreds Of Thousands In Many Core Battleground States. The McCain campaign has outspent the Obama camp by hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in some cases by as much as a million dollars or more, in virtually all of the nearly dozen battleground states where both campaigns are up on the air, according to a firm that tracks national advertising. TPM. | |
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| 12:50 PM: | McCain's McMansions. There's a new video about the real elitist running for president. But don't count on McCain ever being subjected to John Edwards-level personal scrutiny. Salon. | |
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| 10:56 AM: | Obama: By McCain's standard, $3 million is middle class. Obama, who has notably sharpened his jabs at John McCain since he returned to the campaign trail this week, took aim today. Ben Smith. | |
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| 9:30 AM: | Obama Calls 2 Millionth Donor. The Land of Lincolner surprises Ed Prouty of New Hampshire with a personal "thank you" and a four minute phone conversation. Listen to audio above. Obama tells the heating and air conditioning contractor, "It's folks like you that really helped this campaign work." Mark Halperin. | |
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| 7:46 AM: | Speculation is building Biden will be named Obama's running mate. When Joe Biden returns to Capitol Hill Monday from his two-day trip to embattled Georgia, vice presidential speculation will rest squarely on him. The longtime Delaware senator and former presidential candidate has long been considered to be on the shortlist for Barack Obama's running mate. CNN. | |
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| 7:45 AM: | Obama as Jon Lovitz: "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"? Obama isn't losing -- he still has a small single-digit lead in most national polls, and he's ahead narrowly in current electoral-vote projections. But his tone changed a bit campaigning in Reno yesterday, his first full day on the campaign trail since his vacation. To put it simply, he was much more aggressive on the attack. MSNBC. | |
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| 7:44 AM: | Michelle Obama's task at the Convention. Democrats face a number of imperatives at their convention, none trickier than making more voters comfortable with the prospect of putting a candidate with a most unusual background in the White House. No one, his advisers believe, makes the case better than his wife. MSNBC. | |
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| 7:43 AM: | McCain may have cheated at Saddleback. The suggestion by Barack Obama's campaign that John McCain didn't play by the rules at Saturday's Saddleback Forum has tweaked conservative bloggers. The Republican may have been less than truthful in telling one of his most powerful stories, according to his liberal critics online. The Hill. | |
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| 7:43 AM: | Obama Likely to Announce Veep This Week. A person familiar with the campaign's planning tells Politico that Obama's schedule at the end of this week is open, but says the announcement could come "as late as the weekend." Mark Halperin. | |
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| 7:39 AM: | Conventions high-risk for Obama, McCain. On August 25, the Democrats meet in Denver, Colorado, and a week later, the Republicans gather in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. CNN. | |
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| 7:29 AM: | Obama raises $7.8 million in San Francisco. Barack Obama raked $7.8 million Sunday at three separate fundraisers in San Francisco, telling a VIP dinner crowd - many of whom paid $28,500 to attend - that he would win the presidency in November but to expect a tough battle with Republicans in the meantime. AP. | |
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| 7:28 AM: | De-"(br)Othering" Obama in Denver. The New York Times has the key piece out today about how the Obama camp will use the Democratic National Convention to recast its nominee in eyes of wary voters. Salon. | |
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