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- John McCain threw everything but the kitchen sink at Barack Obama and Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki in response to the latter's endorsement of Obama's timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, including the claim that the original Maliki statement was poorly translated. And in a new campaign ad, McCain blamed Obama for high gas prices, which is pretty incredible given that Obama has never had any control over such matters.
- The New York Times has a piece on McCain's transformation from marginal player to key dealmaker in the U.S. Senate.
- The Virginian Pilot reports that 18-25 years olds, a key Obama demographic, are registering at twice the rate of all other Virginians in 2008.
- Matt Drudge calls media bias, uncovering a McCain op-ed rejected by The New York Times for being little more than a thinly-veiled attack on Barack Obama.
- As Dana noted earlier, John McCain spent more in June than he took in. Politico discovers that $25 million of Obama's $52 million haul was raised in a single day.
- The Boston Globe reports on McCain's meeting with George H.W. Bush in Maine, and quotes McCain on Obama: "He's been completely wrong on the issue [the Iraq war]. ... I have been steadfast in my position."
- Public Policy Polling has Obama up over McCain by 8 points in Ohio [PDF], 48-40, the University of New Hampshire [PDF] has Obama ahead of McCain by three points in the Granite State, 46-43, and Democratic challenger Mark Begich is beating incumbent U.S. Senator Ted Stevens in Alaska by 9 points, 50-41, according to Rasmussen
- And finally, McCain warns of the "very hard struggle" along the very non-existent Iraq-Pakistan border.
--Mori Dinauer
