Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* What do you know, McCain’s campaign can<\/i> get worse<\/a>: “Sen. John McCain’s top political strategists Tuesday resigned from their posts with the Arizona Republican’s presidential campaign. Campaign Manager Terry Nelson and Chief Strategist John Weaver announced their departures in a statement released by the campaign just as McCain took to the Senate floor to talk about the situation in Iraq.”<\/p>\n * Speaking of McCain, according to U.S. News, the senator’s chief advisers are urging him to quit his day job<\/a> and become a full-time presidential candidate. “Just resign,” one says he told McCain. “Show you’re all in.” USNWR added, “Advisers say being a senator is a drag. He doesn’t have enough time to campaign and raise money. Worse: The issues he has to vote on, like immigration reform, are killers.”<\/p>\n * Barack Obama picked up a fairly big endorsement<\/a> yesterday from Gary Hirshberg, chief executive of Stonyfield Farm in New Hampshire. “This guy can heal a divided nation,” Hirshberg said on a conference call with reporters. Stonyfield is an organic dairy specializing in yogurt and known for environmental activism.<\/p>\n