memeorandum: Limbaugh: ‘My impact will increase’ (Jonathan Martin/The Politico)

Daniel W. Reilly / The Politico:

McAuliffe: Need ‘something big’ — Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), admitted Sunday that “something big would have to happen” for his candidate to overtake Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

MSNBC:

May 11: Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), Terry McAuliffe, political roundtable — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: After a landslide loss in North Carolina and a razor-thin win in Indiana, Hillary Clinton's campaign goes on. For how long and at what price to Democratic Party unity?

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Commentary and The Field

Zzaki / Political Punch:
Bill Clinton's Message to Rural America

Discussion: AMERICAblog and Patterico's Pontifications

Marc Ambinder:

A Second McCain Aide Resigns — Doug Davenport, the regional campaign manager for the mid-Atlantic states, founded the DCI Group's lobbying practice and oversaw the contract with Myanmar in 2002. — “Doug has tendered his resignation and we have accepted it,” Jill Hazelbaker, McCain's communications director, wrote in a e-mail.

Discussion: The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Firedoglake, DownWithTyranny!, The New Republic, The Carpetbagger Report and AMERICAblog

Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:

Second McCain aide quits over DCI ties — The second McCain aide in as many days has left the campaign over ties to a public relations firm that once represented the Burmese junta. — Doug Davenport, one of McCain's 11 regional campaign managers, quit his post today, a McCain spokeswoman said in response to an inquiry.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and The Page

Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Official Chosen by McCain to Run Convention Resigns

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Stumper

Pol Watchers:

Obama's new Kentucky ad focuses on coal — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama launched a new TV ad this weekend featuring an Illinois miner praising the the him for work on coal issues. — “Washington, D.C., is not listening to us,” said Randy Henry, who is identified as a miner for 31 years.

Discussion: The Page

New York Times:

Already, Obama and McCain Map Fall Strategies — Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are already drawing up strategies for taking each other on in the general election, focusing on the same groups — including independent voters and Latinos — and about a dozen states where they think the contest …

Discussion: The Politico, Los Angeles Times, The Debatable Land, Daily Kos, The New Republic, On Deadline, PERRspectives Blog and The Page

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Is She a Trojan Rabbit? — Now Barack Obama faces a true dilemma: how best to punish Hillary Clinton. — After 15 months of fighting her off, as she veered wildly from bully to victim, as she brandished any ice pick at hand, whether racial, sexual, mathematical or marital …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns and Money, Corrente, Balloon Juice and Campaign Stops

Jonathan Martin / The Politico:

Limbaugh: ‘My impact will increase’ — Conservatives are despondent, liberals are as enthused about a presidential candidate as they've been in 40 years, and the candidate he has long loathed won the Republican nomination. — But never mind the pervasive sense of GOP malaise …

Tom Foreman / CNN:

Religious right leaning toward Democrats? — “Raw Politics” on “Anderson Cooper 360” delivers the latest political news with a wry sense of a humor and without spin. — WASHINGTON (CNN) — For decades, evangelicals have been seen as solid supporters of the Republican Party. That could be changing.

Discussion: protein wisdom

Paul Kane / Washington Post:

As Losses Mount, GOP Begins Looking in the Mirror — Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006, House Republicans have kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any worse? — On Tuesday, they may get another answer they won't like.

Discussion: Jonathan Martin's Blogs, Booman Tribune, DownWithTyranny!, The Other McCain and NY Daily News

Faiz / Think Progress:

Blunt: McCain ‘Would Be’ A Third Bush Term On Economy, 'And I Think That's A Good Thing' — On CNN's Late Edition today, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) claimed that the argument that John McCain would, in effect, be a third Bush term “isn't going to stick”:

Discussion: MoJoBlog

Newsweek:

Sit Back, Relax, Get Ready to Rumble — He's taken everything in stride, it seems. How Obama and his team will battle the GOP onslaught. — How do you know if Barack Obama is unhappy with what you're saying— or not saying? At meetings of his closest advisers, he likes to lean back, put his feet on the table and close his eyes.

Discussion: Stop The ACLU and Donklephant