Gallup daily tracking poll: Obama 47%, McCain 42%.
John McCain is straining every sinew to use the Georgia crisis to demonstrate what he claims are his superior foreign-policy credentials. Perhaps Obama's Hawaiian holiday wasn't such a good idea after all. [Washington Post]
Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican and a longstanding friend of McCain's who's been the subject of rumours that he might become Obama's running-mate, or at least speak at the Democratic convention, won't be doing either. He's sitting the election out, his spokesman says. [USA Today]
"A source" who has seen the baby daughter of Rielle Hunter, with whom John Edwards admitted having an affair, but not conceiving a child, says the infant "looks like John Edwards in a onesie." (Brit-translation: babygro.) That's actually a really troubling image. [New York Daily News]
Obama's pick for vice-president will speak at the convention on the theme of 'securing America's future.' Securing America's Future is also the name of General Wesley Clark's political action committee. Does this mean Clark might be Obama's VP? Or just that American presidential-campaign speeches and groups all have roughly the same title, viz., Securing America's Renewal of Future Hope of Promise for our Families? [Huffington Post]
Speaking of which, former Virginia governor Mark Warner will deliver the Democrats' keynote speech, on the highly controversial topic of Renewing America's Promise. [The Page]
Stephen Colbert, whose remarks at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner may be the funniest attack on the Bush administration ever written, wants to speak at the Democratic convention, too. [Comedy Central]
