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- Obama is refusing to pay local black leaders to turn out votes for him in Pennsylvania. He also mostly avoided such payments in South Carolina though there he was more unwilling to spend as much as Clinton than unwilling to spend at all.
- Ben Smith points out the who, in 1980, first proposed the DNC rule allowing pledged delegates to switch their allegiance at the convention is none other than Harold Ickes, a senior Clinton adviser.
- People get a lot of guff for saying it's very hard for Clinton to win, but the truth is at this point it's very hard for Clinton to win. Even if she wins by 10 percent in every remaining contest she'd still need 70 percent of the remaining superdelegates to win the nomination.
- Obama tries to make CEO pay a wedge issue against McCain.
- The Washington Post has a new piece on the importance of big donors to the Obama campaign. I think it overplays its hand a bit though. Sure, 27,000 donors who've donated $2,300 sounds like a lot, but it accounts for only about a fourth of his total money (another fourth came from people giving $200-$2300). It's still completely amazing to raise half your money from people giving under $200 and vastly out raise every other presidential primary candidate in history.
- Paul Begala says he has "nothing but contempt" for Mark Penn.
- McCain adviser blatantly lies about stop-loss policies.
- The McCain campaign doesn't exactly sound like a well-oiled machine in a new article by Jason Zengerle.
