As Time Runs Short, Clinton Claims Lead in Popular Vote  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is entering the Kentucky and Oregon primaries on Tuesday with one of the most pugnacious political messages of her campaign: That she is ahead in the national popular vote when all votes are counted …

Not A Serious Threat  —  This remarkable bit of footage from Barack Obama's appearance in Oregon last night is now floating around on YouTube.  It might be useful as an undergraduate course exam: how many errors can you spot?  Obama apparently believes that Iran and other rogues states …

Rove's Latest Electoral Maps Have Clinton Stronger Than Obama Against McCain  —  Electoral maps put together by the consulting firm helmed by Karl Rove, and obtained by ABC News, show Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, to be a stronger general election candidate in a hypothetical general election match …

Obama Warns GOP “Lay Off My Wife”  —  Obama Loses Argument With Wife Over Getting a Dog  —  Sen. Barack Obama ripped into a Republican ad today that targets comments made by his wife, Michelle, and called the GOP tactic “low class” and “detestable.”  —  The Illinois senator told …

Superdelegates Turned Down $1 Million Offer From Clinton Donor  —  One of Sen. Hillary Clinton's top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization's two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse …

US billionaire Buffett backs Obama for president  —  Buffett told a press conference here Monday he had offered support to both Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton but that since it appeared Obama would win the party's nomination, “I will be very happy if he is elected president.

Guilt-By-Association Update: The Optics  —  Item: Conservative activists create and begin to spread a video calling on Obama to fire adviser Greg Craig for representing — as a lawyer, not a lobbyist — a Panamanian accused of murdering a U.S. soldier.  —  Comment: Craig is not a peripheral figure in the Obama campaign.

White House takes swipe at NBC News  —  The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush on the issue of appeasement and Iran.  —  At issue were remarks Bush made in front of Israel's parliament earlier this week.

Gallup Daily: Obama Opens Up 16-Point Lead, Biggest Yet  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup Poll Daily tracking finds Barack Obama with his largest advantage over Hillary Clinton in Democratic voters' nomination preferences thus far, 55% to 39%.  —  Obama's previous largest lead was 11 percentage points, in May 15-17 and April 12-14 polling.

THE FALL OF CONSERVATISM  —  Have the Republicans run out of ideas? … The era of American politics that has been dying before our eyes was born in 1966.  That January, a twenty-seven-year-old editorial writer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat named Patrick Buchanan went to work for Richard Nixon …

Byrd endorses Obama for president  —  Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., endorsed Barack Obama for president shortly after noon today, focusing on his hope to end the Iraq War.  —  “As people all across this great nation know, I have been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Bush …

The NYT's latest Kristol embarrassment  —  (updated below)  —  In the short time since he was named an Op-Ed columnist at The New York Times, Bill Kristol has written a series of sloppy, error-plagued and incomparably hackish columns.  He has already had to issue two factual corrections …

Update From The Barr Campaign  —  Russ Verney, Ex-Rep. Bob Barr's presidential campaign manager, has issued his first strategy memorandum-cum-fundraising appeal; in it, he compares his candidate to Ross Perot and hints that Ron Paul might have made something of himself if only he...

Sebelius vetoes bill requiring voters to show photo ID  —  The measure — HB 2019 — was similar to a measure she threatened to veto during last year's legislative session.  Last year's measure failed, but this year's version passed through the efforts of the Republican majorities in the House and Senate.

Ferraro suggests she may not vote for Obama  —  (CNN) — Geraldine Ferraro, the outspoken former Democratic vice presidential candidate and a supporter of Hillary Clinton's White House bid, told the New York Times she may not vote for Barack Obama should he be the party's nominee.