CNN poll: Post-Biden poll shows dead heat  —  DENVER, Colorado (CNN) — It's a dead heat in the race for the White House.  The first national poll conducted entirely after Barack Obama publicly named Joe Biden as his running mate suggests that battle for the presidency between the Illinois senator …

Rendell: Obama coverage was embarrassing  —  Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give “closing remarks” during this afternoon's Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion with all three Sunday show moderators — NBC's Tom Brokaw, ABC's George Stephanopoulous and CBS's Bob Schieffer …

Clinton expected to release delegates Wednesday  —  Featured Topics: - John McCain - Barack Obama  —  DENVER - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, hoping to unite the Democratic Party and cement her future in it, will gather her hard-won primary delegates Wednesday at a reception where she is expected …

The POW card, cont'd  —  First Read quotes unnamed McCain aides suggesting that McCain's prisoner of war experience may become his first response to the attack on his having lost track of his real estate holdings — a non-sequitur, perhaps, but emotionally powerful.

“We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him”  —  Lynn Sweet has a great picture of the stage at the [manger] Pepsi Center in Denver:

AUGUST 2008 WESTERN STATES POLL  —  400 likely voters interviewed August 13-15, 2008, in each of the following states — Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.  The margin for error in each state is plus or minus 5%.  The margin for error on the overall weighted regional results is plus or minus 2%

McCain-Whitman Buzz In Denver  —  A Democratic member of Congress throws out the following scenario:  —  With Biden on board Obama's train, McCain will find himself boxed in by events.  —  He can't choose Tim Pawlenty — a man with arguably fewer foreign policy credentials than Obama.

Oprah I Forgive You  —  I was one of those Hillary women who was heartbroken when Oprah supported Obama for President.  —  How could Oprah and her pal Gayle do that do me?  Sure Obama was from her hometown and Chicago's favorite son...but I kept asking, what about me?

Hot Air TV: Encounters with the Left  —  Moonbats say the darnedest things.  And Hot Air special correspondent Jason Mattera is undercover at the Democrat convention in Denver to capture their rants and ramblings.  He communed with pro-abortion activists at the Planned Parenthood mega-facility on Saturday morning (my coverage here).

Drilling Boom Revives Hopes for Natural Gas  —  HOUSTON — American natural gas production is rising at a clip not seen in half a century, pushing down prices of the fuel and reversing conventional wisdom that domestic gas fields were in irreversible decline.

Kennedy may visit convention  —  If his physicians give him the go-ahead, he wants to be there  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward Kennedy could make an unscheduled appearance at this week's Democratic convention if his physicians give him the go-ahead, his son says.

Blacks Debate Civil Rights Risk in Obama's Rise  —  WASHINGTON — On the night that Senator Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for president, Roderick J. Harrison plans to pop open a bottle of Champagne and sit riveted before the television with his wife and 12-year-old son.

5 things Biden pick says about Obama  —  It is easy to overstate the meaning of vice presidential picks.  After all, rarely does the selection of a running mate significantly tilt the outcome of an election.  But it does provide a unique window into the presidential nominee's decision-making instincts …