Quickies

- Public health hazard number one: Bob Novak.

- Bush on the economic crisis:

"There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk ... it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments."

Write your own joke here.

- Rasmussen has Obama leading in Florida. 49-47%.

- Lina Newhouser, co-founder of Commondreams.org has died at age 56.

- Rasmussen also has McCain up by 10 in Ohio, which is the opposite of PPP's latest poll, which has Obama up by 8.

Quickies

- Public Policy Polling shows Obama with a 8 point lead over McCain in Ohio (48-40).

- South Carolina State Senator Kevin Bryant does GOP bigots proud.

- Glenn Greenwald explains the real reason for the Democrats' cave on telecom amnesty: The convention is brought to you by AT&T!

- Brownsox at Daily Kos says the race for Ky.'s U.S. Senate seat may be very competitive:

KY-Sen: Speaking of fundraising news, Bruce Lunsford is committed to keeping pace with fundraising juggernaut Mitch McConnell. Largely through personal donations to his own campaign, Lunsford matched McConnell's stunning $3 million take from last quarter.

Mollohan endorses Obama

He's not exactly my favorite guy, but remaining member of W.Va.'s Democratic Congressional delegation has made his pick.

The Gazette:

U.S. Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, D-W.Va., announced his support for Barack Obama as Democratic Party nominee for president late Thursday afternoon.

All four of West Virginia's Democratic members of Congress have endorsed the Illinois senator. Mollohan joins Sens. Robert C. Byrd and Jay Rockefeller and Rep. Nick J. Rahall.

Bringing the delegate totals to:

Obama 1,984
Clinton 1,781
Need to nominate 2,025

Bear in mind the math could change a bit tomorrow, due to the Michigan-Florida mess (if we get a resolution this weekend).

Obama doing well in Ohio poll

Despite losing the state to Clinton in the primary.

A new poll by Survey USA shows the matchups between possible McCain and Obama tickets.

Obama beats McCain in 14 out of 17 cases. McCain wins 2. One is tied.

His best showing is if he puts John Edwards in the V-P slot. Under such a ticket, he opens up a double digit lead over all McCain tickets.

In a generic match-up with no V-Ps named, Obama beats McCain by 9.