as of June 30th they are. I was surprised myself. I was also surprised that Schumer and several other prominent Senators don't have a leadership PAC.

That quote in the Update sounds a little like snark. I had to read it twice before I took it seriously.

you mean Ruben Kihuen?

anyone in your state that we should know about?

Yeah, it's true. Obama got a late surge in several states only to still lose those states in the end. Here's the thing, though: often times early voting was a factor. This was certainly the case in CA. He also had a late surge there but it wasn't enough to win in the end. Now, I think (but am not sure) that Ohio and Texas also had early voting. What about PA then? Is there early voting in PA? If so, it might be less of a factor because the campaign in PA was much longer than in CA, TX or OH. And it might be the first big state where Obama might overcome Clinton's early advantage.

Haven't been engaging in the comments in a while here and one really has to wonder what happened here. I'm not sure who all these new guys are but not reading the faq seems to be a very big problem. Troll rating that comment is beyond absurd. Troll rating leads to comments being hidden. Just because you disagree does not make it troll worthy. Rather more it seems to be troll worthy what you're doing. Amazing, really, how people like you managed to destroy this community in the past year. It's called MyDD - My Direct Democracy for a reason. Clearly you have a problem with other people making valid arguments. I really have to wonder who is the real troll here.

Mike Gravel is at 3%? That must be his best polling ever, that he's tied with Richardson is just crazy. Maybe the debate tonight should include Gravel as the fourth candidate? And, yeah, I actually checked out the ARG poll itself to make sure it wasn't a typo by Jonathan.

hey, Todd, why ignore Nevada? I know the big media does it all the time but why do you act like there's nada between NH and SC? Essentially, Nevada is the big Clinton firewall. They've had similar numbers in Nevada as nationally. If Clinton loses IA and NH and wins NV she could rebound. If she loses NV in such a scenario I believe her campaign is basically over.

hello again, guess what I was doing while you were writing these comments?

Funny thing is, this video has been flagged by the YouTube community as inappropriate and you now have to log in to prove you're older than 18 to view the video on YouTube itself. Apparently that's not the case for the embedded version here. Since most people watching YouTube videos don't have YouTube accounts this should limit viewership of this disgusting vile "ad" significantly.

The one thing that could explain lower fundraising numbers for the quarter (not just for Obama but generally for all candidates) is that the third quarter included the months of July, August and September. Two of those months were virtually dead from the political standpoint. I think anyone running a blog and looking at his stats could testify to that.

Sure, us political junkies were around but the general population only started to tune in again after Labor Day.

What would be noticeable than, is if some candidate raised significantly more in the third (Summer) quarter than the second (spring) quarter.

Just my two cents.

Slattery served in the House from 1983-1995. So, he was elected in 1982 and then reelected five times. He did not lose the House race in 1994 as he instead ran for Governor that year. (Wikipedia)

Now Hillary, Obama, and Edwards (and pretty much everyone else except Gravel and Kucinich) will have to answer questions as to why this ruling is wrong while trying not to hurt their stance in the gay community.

I wish they'd just all stop playing games and simply say equality's equality and discrimination is discrimination. The judge gets it. Why don't our presidential candidates? I thought we were electing a leader - where's the leadership?

I just wrote a post about this at My Silver State in the hope that this just may prevent Nevada Congressmen Porter or Heller from asking Bush to raise funds for them.

I hope other local blogs and the members of the 50 State Blog Network will do the same!

It's great news to hear about Andrew Rice's decision to run. I'm very much looking forward to it. This may very well turn out to be the Tester-Burns race of 2008. Early on, few expected Tester to prevail and right now, few seem to expect Rice to prevail. I think Andrew Rice has the potential to be the break out candidate of this coming election. Best of luck to him and I'm looking forward to his lifeblogging.