Obama was sniffling yesterday in New Mexico, and seems to have gotten a cold in, of all places, Hawaii.

From today’s pool report:

Obama is still sick. He looks and sounds much worse than yesterday. He walked in with a hankie or …

Rep. John Lewis doesn’t exactly welcome McCain’s praise at Saddleback:

"I cannot stop one human being, even a presidential candidate, from admiring the courage and sacrifice of peaceful protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge or making comments about it," he …

Al Gore, whom the primary left the Democratic Party’s leading elder statesman, will speak to the huge Thursday night convention crowd, CNN reports.

A survey from the Drum Major Institute finds that large majorities of the self-identified middle class have no idea how their members of congress voted on any given issue.

(The left-leaning think tank’s shocking conclusion: If people knew more, they’d …

Since long before Obama entered the presidential contest, Illinois conservatives have cited his opposition to a state bill called the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. But while the cause seems rather har to oppose — the bill nominally aims to …

The DNC gets a bit more personal, with a webad that hits McCain’s wealth and what he’ll personally save under his tax cuts, calling him out-of-touch.

And the RNC crosses a frontier it had previously sought to defend, with an …

A classic Joe Biden ad from 1988, which begins: "The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. A …

A lawyer for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has privately advised him that he isn’t required to take any action in response to the move by a small party to put him on the general election ballot in …

Obama tries to push back McCain’s shots at his character, without impugning McCain’s, in a speech to veterans today. In particular, he’s demanding that McCain call him a patriot — forcing the direct question to a candidate who, at times, …

On his new blog (!), Howard Wolfson links a report about Democratic jitters and writes:

Feels like this story is written every four years. Relax, Democrats. Given their successes so far, hasn’t the team running the Obama …