John McCain has more support than Barack Obama among pet owners, according to a poll released by the Associated Press and Yahoo!
McCain gets 42 percent of pet owners' backing compared to Obama's 37 percent. (The Republican wins among both dog and cat owners.)
Among those who don't own pets, Obama wins the support of 48 percent while McCain gets 34 percent.
McCain has more than a dozen pets, while Obama has none at home, the AP reported.
The demographics of pet owners also tilt in the Republican's favor. More white Americans than black Americans own dogs, and a higher proportion of married Americans own them than single Americans, the poll found.
Terry McAuliffe, the former campaign chairman for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) presidential bid, is hosting a fundraiser for Barack Obama Thursday.
The event is bringing together Obama and Clinton groups in Washington. Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) is headlining the event with McAuliffe. Here is the invitation via TPM.
Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) said that the release of a distant relative who was kidnapped in Mexico was handled the right way, according to KTSM in El Paso, Texas.
Erika Posselt was kidnapped in Juarez, Mexico on June 29. She was later released after a family member in Mexico paid a $32,000 ransom, the NBC affiliate reported.
"I think anyone who has family knows how anyone would feel when a member of your family is involved. But really we handled this the way we would have handled any other case," Reyes told a KTSM reporter in his first public remarks about the kidnapping.
Howard Wolfson, former communications director for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) presidential campaign, is joining Fox News Channel as a contributor, the TV network announced today.
Wolfson will make his debut Wednesday.
"Howard was part of the inner working circle of Senator Clinton
The raffle offered by Barack Obama's campaign to donors to win a chance to meet with the candidate backstage at the Democratic convention could be a violation of Minnesota gambling laws, reports the Star Tribune.
The state's gambling board has asked another state agency to look into the matter, the newspaper reports. According to the board's rules, one can't hold a raffle as a political campaign fundraiser, the paper notes.
Minnesota TV viewers will receive a special message from the Sopranos' Vincent Curatola, aka Johnny "Sack" Sacramoni, warning them that Al Franken supports the Employee Free Choice Act.
Curatola is appearing, for the second time, in an ad paid for by Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW), a group founded to oppose the bill.
The Employee Free Choice Act, which Franken supports, would allow workers to form unions by obtaining signatures on a sign-up sheet. Currently, the National Labor Relations Board mandates secret ballot elections to certify the formation of unions.
CDW alleges this opens workers to pro-union intimidation; labor unions and supporters of the bill say the current system opens workers to anti-union intimidation from employers.
The ad begins airing statewide in Minnesota today. In it, Curatola appears as a bullying labor boss who doesn't like Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), whom Franken is challenging, because Coleman opposes the Employee Free Choice Act. See it below:
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) refused to provide the information that Barack Obama's running mate search team asked for last week, Marc Ambinder reports.
Webb took himself out of consideration for the Democratic vice presidential nomination Monday. Webb did not want to "relive the vigors of a campaign" so soon after his 2006 election to the Senate, a Democrat close to Webb told Ambinder.
The Atlantic blogger also reports that McCain's veep search team has also started its vetting process. It has asked a number of potential candidates, including former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), to provide it with documents and information, Ambinder writes.
A civil-rights umbrella group has released a report that claims that ethnic minorities, the elderly and the disabled will be left behind when the transition to all-digital television formatting begins in February 2009.
The Leadership Conference for Civil Rights (LCCR) said, "At stake is the ability of the nation's most vulnerable populations to maintain uninterrupted access to their key source of news and information and emergency warnings: free, over-the-air television."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will appear before Netroots Nation, the national convention for liberal bloggers, later this month.
Convention organizers are taking questions for Pelosi at AskTheSpeaker.org. She is scheduled to attend a convention session in Austin, Texas, on July 19.
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