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
* The very last Pennsylvania polls to be released before voting began this morning both show Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama by 10. The final Zogby<\/a> tracking poll in the state shows Clinton up 51-41, while the latest InsiderAdvantage<\/a> poll shows her up 49-39.<\/p>\n * In terms of national polls, the latest numbers from USA Today\/Gallup<\/a> show Obama solidifying his support nationwide. He now leads among Democrats 50-40, and the 10-point gap is up 3 percentage points from a month ago. The news was not all bad for Clinton, though — in hypothetical general election match-ups, her margin of victory over John McCain (50-44) was greater than Obama’s (47-44).<\/p>\n * On CNN last night, Larry King asked Clinton about staying in the race until the convention. Clinton responded<\/a>, “Well, I’m going until we get Florida and Michigan resolved. I’m going until everybody’s had a chance to vote in this process. I’m going until the automatic delegates have made their judgments, based on their independent assessments, as to who of us would be better against John McCain in the fall and who would be the best president for our country.”<\/p>\n * Cindy McCain denied reports about her husband’s explosive temper while appearing on “The View” yesterday, insisting that he’s simply “passionate about the future<\/a>.”<\/p>\n * Jon Stewart asked Obama last night if he planned, once in office, to “enslave the white race<\/a>.” Obama responded, “That is not our plan, Jon, but I think your paranoia might make you suitable as a debate moderator.” * Unfortunately, it appears Obama is just as confused<\/a> as McCain when it comes to the correlation (or lack thereof) between vaccines and autism rates.<\/p>\n * Bill Clinton believes<\/a> the Obama campaign played the “race card” against him.<\/p>\n * Obama got a little testy<\/a> with reporters while he was having breakfast yesterday.<\/p>\n * Louisiana’s Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, John Kennedy, was trashed<\/a> by the National Republican Senatorial Committee just four years ago. Kennedy was a conservative Democrat at the time.<\/p>\n * Remember Ron Paul? Apparently, he’s been running radio ads<\/a> in Pennsylvania in advance of today’s primary. (Yes, technically there really is a Republican primary.)<\/p>\n * Richard Nixon’s daughter supports Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\n* Good advice<\/a>: “Clinton, speaking to reporters in Conshohocken just now, said she’d campaign for a united Democratic Party, no matter who’s the nominee. ‘Anybody who supports Barack or me would be very foolish to think voting for Senator McCain makes any sense,’ she said.”<\/p>\n