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- Hillary Clinton will officially begin campaigning on behalf of Barack Obama starting next week. In a conference call with her top donors yesterday, Clinton urged them to open their wallets for Obama and took responsibility for the money she loaned her campaign during the primaries while bluntly asking for help with her other debts.
- In light of yesterday's announcement that he will forgo public campaign financing, Obama has taken some heat for going back on an earlier promise to accept public funding if both he and John McCain were the nominees. This doesn't seem to be bothering the campaign, however, with one Democratic strategist suggesting that it would not be impossible for Obama to raise upwards of half a billion dollars.
- Jonathan Martin looks for 527s targeting Obama and doesn't find much.
- New York mayor Michael Bloomberg forcefully denounced the "whisper campaign" against Obama, urging Jewish voters to reject the smear that he is a "shadow Muslim."
- David Leonhardt has three questions about John McCain's economic agenda in the NY Times today.
- The Wonk Room applies McCain and Obama's tax plans to the candidates' families with amusing results.
- Nate Silver tears apart the notion that putting Tim Pawlenty on the Republican ticket will "deliver" Minnesota and Wisconsin to McCain this Fall.
- Sick of wild polling fluctuations? Tough. Rasmussen has Obama up 50-39 in New Hampshire, McCain up 45-42 in Nevada, and Obama down to 43-41 in Colorado. In Georgia, Insider Advantage shows Obama only behind McCain by one point, 44-43, with Bob Barr getting six percent of the vote.
- And finally, Obama unveiled a wicked quasi-presidential seal at a meeting with Democratic governors today.
--Mori Dinauer
