Zogby Poll: Obama Expands Lead in NC; Dems Still Biting Nails in Indiana!  —  Obama enjoys a strong final day of polling before the elections  —  UTICA, New York—On the strength of good polling numbers on the final day before the primary elections in Indiana and North Carolina …

MICHELLE OBAMA'S GOSPEL OF BITTERNESS  —  This past Friday Michelle Obama gave essentially the same stump speech in Charlotte, North Carolina that she had given the week earlier in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Based on the stump speech, Yuval Levin calls Mrs. Obama “The unhappiest millionaire.”

$5 gas near, 78% of Americans say  —  A vast majority of consumers expect to shell out $4 and even $5 a gallon this year, according to a recent poll.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Americans are already paying through the nose for gasoline, and they think it's only going to get worse.

Combat and Composure  —  Life is short, but campaigns are long.  And during the course of them, each candidate will have impressive and pathetic moments.  But underlying the highs and lows, there are the fundamentals.  The fundamentals of the Obama-Clinton race were on display Sunday morning.

What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen  —  At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both prominent Republicans.  The conversation soon turned to the new president.  “I didn't vote for George Bush” the man confessed.

Things that don't exist in Harry Reid's world  —  (updated below)  —  Harry Reid was on The Daily Show last night (to promote his book, ironically entitled The Good Fight) and said that Joe Lieberman “supports us on virtually everything except the war.”  This is exactly what Reid …

Mildred Loving, Who Fought Ban on Mixed Marriage, Dies at 68  —  Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling overturning state miscegenation laws, died on May 2 at her home in Central Point, Va. She was 68.

IS MICHELLE OBAMA RESPONSIBLE FOR THE JEREMIAH WRIGHT FIASCO?  —  So numbed have I become by the endless replay of the fatuous clerical rantings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright that it has taken me this long to remember the significant antecedent.  In 1995, there appeared a documentary titled Brother Minister …

John & Elizabeth Edwards: What We Like (and Dislike) About Clinton & Obama  —  Elizabeth Edwards likes Hillary Clinton's plan for universal health insurance.  Husband John Edwards doesn't much care for Clinton's “old politics.”  —  So goes the his-and-her debate in the Edwards household …

Aid Flows to Myanmar as Death Toll Rises  —  BANGKOK — The death toll from a powerful cyclone that struck Myanmar three days ago rose to 22,500 Tuesday, with a further 41,000 people still missing, the government said, and foreign governments and aid organizations began mobilizing for a major relief operation.

Clinton disclosures didn't list $24 million of Bill's income  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton excluded nearly $24 million of her husband's earnings from Senate financial statements from 2004 through 2006, capitalizing on rules that permit senators to limit disclosures of some of their spouses' income.

For McCain, There Goes the Roofers' Vote  —  For all the talk regarding the necessity of winning the “blue collar” vote, our presidential candidates continue to show a puzzling lack of understanding when it comes to working class America.  During a stop yesterday in Charlotte, North Carolina …

Paul Campaign Never Ended, Spokesman Says  —  As the Democratic presidential candidates held pre-primary rallies yesterday in Indiana and North Carolina, and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain spoke to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, another major-party presidential candidate continued …