Opening the Day: Clinton's Campaign Corpse Kicking

by Matt Stoller [courtesy of Open Left - Front Page]

• By overwhelming margins and in both parties, Vito Fossella's constituents want him to stay in office.  I guess this is the ultimate example of that quintessentially irritating 'I hate Congress but my Congressman is great'.

• The New York Times and the Washington Post confirm that McCain did not vote for Bush.  Arianna reported that McCain told her this, and the McCain camp had this to say.

  "She's a flake and a poser and an attention-seeking diva," Mark Salter, one of Mr. McCain's closest aides, told The Washington Post.

  Others at the dinner have now confirmed that McCain did say he did not vote for Bush.  Salter has a strong temper, having ripped La filmmaker who depicted McCain fairly nicely but not nicely enough, and screamed at a college student who challenged McCain before a graduation speech.

• Obama overtook Clinton in superdelegates today.

• Obama's Vote for Change program begins tomorrow.  He'll register a whole lot of people.

• Hedge Funds are buying rent-controlled apartments in New York and harassing tenants until they leave.

• Bush will veto the farm bill.

• A top Clinton official is shopping around for a book deal, or so reports Keith Olberman on Dailykos.  The race is over.  The Clinton campaign knows it's over.  This is not a surprise.

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