- For those of you curious about how exactly Obama could help pay off Hillary's $20 million debt without breaking the law and/or draining his own treasury, it works like this (HT to Walter Shapiro): he asks his own maxed-out, high-rolling contributors (those who have given the maximum-allowable $2300) to contribute the same amount to Hillary's campaign. No muss, no fuss.
- Speaking of ways to end a campaign: Ben Smith comes up with 6 different exit strategies for Hillary Clinton. Number two is my favorite:
Extract a job: Clinton still has leverage. Every day she’s in the race, she reminds the media of Obama’s weaknesses with some voters and drives what threatens to become a self-fulfilling narrative about his inability to connect to working-class white voters. Bill Clinton, meanwhile, is roaming rural America, stoking the same resentments Republicans hope to use against Obama in the fall. It’s a kind of political protection racket, and she can try to force Obama to offer her something to make it stop...
- Another special election happens tomorrow in MS-01 when Democrat Travis Childers and Republican Greg Davis square off on the ballot Tuesday. Childers narrowly missed winning the election outright on April 22 when he got 49.4% of the vote in a southern congressional district that is about as Republican as you can get. All eyes are on Mississippi to see if the Dems can pull off the same sort of upset they got in LA-06 (my home district) when Democrat Don Cazayoux beat Republican Woody JenKKKins.
- Bad news for Republicans: Obama and Clinton are beating McCain in the latest LA Times/Bloomberg poll. And as bad as that is for McCain, the internals show something far worse:
More than three-quarters of voters said they believed the economy was in a recession... [A]mong the 78% of voters who said they believe the economy has slid into a recession, 52% would vote for Obama, compared with 32% for McCain.
- And in a related story, Rasmussen shows that North Carolina and Virginia would be a jump ball between Obama and McCain if the general election were held today.
- That said, West Virginia will not be going for Barack Obama on Tuesday...or in November.
- I have a feeling this video of Bill O'Reilly melting down (Warning: language NSFW) will turn up on Olbermann's 'cast. It's from his "Inside Edition" days...when he had hair. Boo-yah!
- Most intriguing solution to the Michigan and Florida mess: whatever else you do with the delegates, you make sure the stupid superdelegates who screwed this up do not get a vote at the convention. Yes, that's right Debbie Dingell -- no soup for you.
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