Gallup daily tracking poll: Obama 47%, McCain 43%
The Obama campaign may pride itself on attracting so many small donations from grassroots supporters -- but more than a third of its funds have come from big-money donors, outstripping Hillary Clinton and John McCain. "Behind those larger donations is a phalanx of more than 500 Obama 'bundlers,' fund-raisers who have each collected contributions totaling $50,000 or more. Many of the bundlers come from industries with critical interests in Washington." [New York Times]
Obama is in Indiana today, appearing with Evan Bayh as rumours grow deafening that the two might soon be sharing a presidential ticket. [Indianpolis Star]
The McCain campaign pulls even with Obama in media coverage. That 'Celeb' ad did the trick. [Pew Research Center]
Obama mocks the McCain campaign's mockery of his suggestion that Americans keep their tires at the right pressure: "They are making fun of a step that every expert says will absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4%. It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." (Video.) The Republicans are finding it much harder to mock Obama than John Kerry, Greg Sargent argues. [TPM Election Central]
The five biggest flip-flops of the campaign so far (Obama committed three of them, McCain two). [Politico]
Strange-attempts-at-humour update: Mitt Romney keeps saying that Barack Obama is "like an internet date," and in this clip is challenged to explain what the heck he means. Earlier, speaking to a gathering of bikers, John McCain suggested his wife Cindy take part in a topless beauty pageant. Before that, Obama told reporters they'd better eat a piece of his birthday cake, or else they'd be branded as elitists.
Meanwhile, an actual comedian, Al Franken -- who's running for the Senate in Minnesota -- draws a near-perfect map of the United States from memory at a campaign event. Surely, for that, he should be awarded the seat automatically? [DailyKos]
