It’s not a good sign for your campaign when you’re worried that anti-war protestors will outnumber people who will attend a fundraiser…in your home state’s capital.
From the Phoenix Biz Journal:
A Tuesday fundraiser headlined by President Bush for U.S. Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign is being moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center.
Sources familiar with the [...]

His previous drop from a campaign high 55% seems to be flattening out…

The details…
Obama’s current eight percentage point advantage among national Democrats marks the eighth straight day he has led Clinton in Gallup Poll Daily tracking. More broadly, Obama has held a significant lead in all but one Gallup Poll Daily tracking report since May [...]

Don’t worry, Huckabee Fans… I was just as perplexed as you when I saw the list of potential Veeps invited to McCain’s BBQ didn’t include Mike Huckabee. Today word’s leaked out that Mike was, in fact, invited to the big McCain Memorial Day Weekend – but he couldn’t make it!
Sarah Huckabee says her parents will [...]

When I first caught the buzz about Bobby Jindal, I thought it was nothing more than a pipe dream. “Who is this guy anyway?” I wondered. “And who is he to really compete with the likes of Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee for the #2 spot?” I was reading the India Times and thought it [...]

McCain’s closest adviser Lindsey Graham sat down with Colmes to discuss the upcoming Memorial Day weekend that political pundits say is one big audition for the running mate slot.
“I’m going to be there because, like I say, I enjoy his company, and it’s a free meal,” Graham laughs.
When asked about the possibility of a mixed [...]

I’ve updated this post with new video since the other one contained a bunch of stuff that didn’t matter to this conversation.

Here’s the transcript…
“I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns of both my husband and Senator (Robert) Kennedy waged in California in June in [...]

This is just a partial from TPM.

I’ll try to get the whole thing as it become available…which I’m sure it will.

TPM has the best context of the statement.

You’re right Hillary…I don’t understand it either.
Folks, for my money, it’s pretty clear that bringing up RFK is a very weird thing to do in this context. She’s talking about people trying to get her out and the reasons she would stay in. So talking about somebody’s assassination [...]

MSNBC’s First Read has this…
NBC/NJ’s Mike Memoli notes that Clinton said something similar the day after the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. “Sometimes you gotta calm people down a little bit. But if you look at successful presidential campaigns, my husband did not get the nomination until June of 1992,” she said. “I remember tragically [...]

WTF?!?!?!
Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama.
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in [...]

Not only that, she’s accusing Obama’s people of planting the story.
Ugh…
“That’s flatly untrue — flatly, completely untrue,” Hillary said when asked about the story. The edit board meeting is being aired live, and is still underway.
“No discussions at all,” Hillary continued. “It is not anything I’m entertaining. It is nothing I’ve planned. It is nothing [...]

This margin looked to steady out yesterday, but it appears as if another loss in Kentucky, coupled with the fact that Hillary keeps claiming she can win, is hurting his numbers.

The details…
Obama has held a statistically significant lead over Clinton for most of the last two weeks, with that lead stretching to as much as [...]

CNN has the scoop…

Here’s David Kurtz’s take:
On first blush I’m skeptical that there really are “formal talks” in the usual sense of that phrase. The report appears to lean heavily on sourcing from within the Clinton camp, which is notable. The significance here may not be that there are formal talks underway or that the [...]

As previously reported, John McCain may be considering New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for the vice president spot. One issue: he may be on Barack Obama’s list as well.
The very fact that the exact same man is possibly being considered by both the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees tells us that both sides’ attempts [...]

Over at repptide, we’ve been taking the pulse of public opinion on a number of political issues.
So when Hillary Clinton started making claims that it was sexism that was to blame for her campaign’s second-place showing, we wanted to see if she was right or if there were other factors that could have explained her [...]

I seriously doubt that McCain would pick Bloomberg, given his many liberal stances.
Still, NY Mag speculates that he’s being actively courted by Arizona senator:
The morning before John McCain’s sprightly turn on Saturday Night Live on May 17, the de facto GOP presidential nominee had breakfast at Sarabeth’s on Central Park South with Michael Bloomberg and [...]

In recent days, McCain has started talking up comprehensive immigration reform again, and that’s the straw that broke the elephant’s back for at least one prominent right wing blogger.
See, McCain had pledged during the primaries that he was going to abandon that stance, and many conservatives feel he never would have won the nomination had [...]

First the lobbyists and now the preachers.
This time it’s Rod Parsley, who has basically said America was founded to destroy Islam and has characterized Allah as a “demon spirit.”
From ABC:
Sen. John McCain rejected the endorsement of a second controversial pastor Thursday, saying there is no place for the Rev. Rod Parsley’s comments about Islam.
“I [...]

 
I’ve been dying to draw a Ron Paul cartoon, especially as a lesbian! The Libertarian convention is happening this week, and with Georgia congressman Bob Barr coming out of the closet, the Republicans are afraid…very afraid of the L word.

A review by the AP of over 1,000 pages of John McCain’s medical records from 2000 – 2008 revealed the candidate is in fine health. He is cancer free and his cardiac health is excellent. By all indications he is more than healthy enough to serve as president despite the fact that he will turn [...]