• Barack Obama might consider adjusting his Iraq withdrawal plan if elected president, the NY Times Caucus reports.
  • An LA Times story alleging that Obama might shorten the Democratic national convention by one day to extend his post-nomination bounce has been denied by the campaign.
  • A Time poll finds Barack Obama and John McCain statistically tied amongst Catholic voters.
  • Talking Points Memo has constructed a useful timeline of Obama’s changing position on FISA.
  • A Rasmussen poll finds Obama beating McCain in Montana by five points.
  • The Wall St. Journal reports on efforts by former swiftboaters to circumvent existing campaign finance law in order to allow them to more directly assist the John McCain presidential campaign.
  • A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted for the Fourth of July weekend finds, shockingly, that Americans are into patriotism! And that one-in-six find flag lapels patriotic! Consider this the statistic of the day.

–Mori Dinauer

Mori Dinauer is a former web editorial intern at the Prospect.