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- Think Progress runs down McCain's extensive connections to the oil industry and his record of supporting tax breaks for oil companies.
- You wouldn't know it from your average newspaper, but in many ways the general election has already started.
- McCain is raffling off a seat on his press bus to top donors. I guess there's nothing wrong with that and, as Jay Carney says, it's a way for McCain to raise money off his warm relations with the press, but if I were a reporter on that bus I'd feel a bit uneasy being used to raise money for the candidate I'm covering.
- Obama supporter, superdelegate, and Governor of Puerto Rico Aníbal S. Acevedo Vilá has been indicted for campaign finance violations. This creates some problems for Obama in a state where the conventional wisdom was already that Clinton was favored. However, according to this guy, who seems to know what he's talking about, the American media doesn't get Puerto Rican politics and Obama is actually better positioned to win there.
- You know all the punditry based on the Gallup daily tracking poll? Hooey says Pollster.com. Similarly, Mori pointed out that the number of Democrats saying they would vote for McCain if their preferred candidate doesn't get the nomination is actually quite low by historical standards. I'm still not convinced this primary is good for the party, but it isn't as disastrous as we think (it's not a trainsmash, as an English friend of my family likes to say) which is a good thing because, as I said on Tuesday, it ain't gonna be over anytime soon.
- The recession, coming soon to an economy near you.
--Sam Boyd
