McCain Camp Pounces on Obama Comments From ABC News Interview  —  The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tonight pounced on comments Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made in an interview today with ABC News.  —  This was the exchange in question.  —  TAPPER: Speaking of the Supreme Court …

67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices  —  Most voters favor the resumption of offshore drilling in the United States and expect it to lower prices at the pump, even as John McCain has announced his support for states that want to explore for oil and gas off their coasts.

McCain's Secret, Questionable Record  —  “At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the prospect of his first admiral's star …

Reading Ahead  —  THE LATEST study on the impact of vouchers for D.C. students is sure to be read through a prism.  Supporters of the scholarship program will see a glass half-full, opponents one half-empty.  We prefer the characterization of the federal researcher who directed the exhaustive study …

Obama Plans Spending Boost, Possible Cut in Business Tax  —  FLINT, Mich. — Sen. Barack Obama shed new light on his economic plans for the country, saying he would rely on a heavy dose of government spending to spur growth, use the tax code to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers …

Pin at the GOP state convention in Texas: “If Obama is Presisdent... will we still call it the White House?”  —  Expect the Republican party to do absolutely nothing about the racists in its own midst.  The national Republican party in Washington has contacts all the time with its state parties.

A Friend in Need  —  Angelo Mozilo's loans to the well-connected raise some questions.  They should be answered.  —  SEEKING TO refinance his Delaware beach house in 2004, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) did what any ordinary property owner in his position would have done.

Report Questions Pentagon Accounts  —  Officials Looked Into Interrogation Methods Early On  —  A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay …

Early reaction to Al Gore's Obama endorsement: Yawn  —  Some early overnight reaction to the belated endorsement of Barack Obama by Al Gore.  And it might disappoint the former vice president and loser in the 2000 White House race.  —  Exactly what Gore was waiting for in the past …

Poll Finds Independent Voters Split Between McCain, Obama  —  Buoyed by a public mood favoring Democrats, Sen. Barack Obama begins the general-election campaign holding a narrow advantage over Sen. John McCain, with independent voters emerging as a constituency critical to the Republican's hopes of winning the presidency in November.

R.I.P. to the S.U.V.  —  It's hard to convince most Americans that there is a silver lining to $4-a-gallon gasoline.  But General Motors provided a nugget of good news when it announced that it would shutter much of its production of pickups and sport utility vehicles …

Your Electorate, Folks  —  ABC News and the Washington Post are out with their first post-primary poll, and, as should not be surprising, it is fairly identical to the results found by CNN, Fox, USA Today, Gallup, CBS News, NBC News.  (These polls are the gold standard; with Gallup tracking daily …

Group muddies McCain message  —  Non-profit bent rules while supporting his agenda, raising money  —  WASHINGTON — Allies of Sen. John McCain opened a Washington think tank in 2001 to promote transparency and accountability in government, a signature issue for the Arizona Republican …

Where They Mostly Agree  —  Abortion and judges  —  Both men oppose use of federal money for abortions, including aid to groups that help women obtain them.  Both support the ban on Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003 and parental notification for minors.  Mr. McCain says Roe v. Wade …