Gallup daily tracking poll: Obama 46%, McCain 44% CBS/New York Times: Obama 45%, McCain 39%, with Obama outperforming McCain among working-class white voters, as a Washington Post poll found earlier this week.
More questions are being asked about Harry Sergeant, a Florida businessman who has raised more than half a million dollars for the McCain campaign. Some of the donations are suspicious, the New York Times reports -- and some of the cheques initially written exceeded the legal maximum donation -- while Sergeant, whose company won a lucrative contract to supply fuel to the US military in Iraq, is being sued by the King of Jordan's brother-in-law over allegations of fraud. [New York Times, TPM Election Central]
Obama is going on vacation to Hawaii, where, if this Entertainment Weekly Q&A is anything to go by, he will be listening to Javanese flute music on his iPod. Among other pop-culture revelations, "I think I may have teared up at the end [of Born Free] when they release [the lioness] Elsa." McCain, meanwhile, attracts new-found respect by admitting to liking The Wire and Curb Your Enthusiasm. [Entertainment Weekly]
In Time magazine, meanwhile, they abandon pop-culture to discuss their feelings about religion. They both think it's pretty great, basically. [Time]
An executive at a Chicago consulting firm claims he lost his job partly because he wouldn't make a donation to the presidential campaign of good-lookin' Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. [Wall Street Journal]
Slate offers the presidential candidates advice on time management and 'lifehacking' -- "elegant tricks and long-term productivity strategies that help you control your time and attention, which the world conspires to take from you." [Slate]
The Democratic convention later this month is aiming to be the greenest in history, except that -- well, no bikes will be allowed within the perimeter of the venue. [Huffington Post]
