Mid-day wrap-up

• Presidential stuff:
  • Michael Barone finds  a new map.
  • Obama's favorables falling, especially among women.
  • According to The Economist, The Democratic Party is the victim of Hillary's attempt to give full voting rights to Michigan and Florida.
  • Dan Reihl finds more about Obama and the New Party and starts working on links to ACORN, where Obama worked.
  • Jerome Armstrong thinks that Obama needs to reject Pfleger's Clinton Hate.
  • Meantime, Francis Cardinal George drops the hammer on Pfleger.
• The House
  • DC Insiders think that the GOP will lose between 14 and 17 House seats this cycle.
  • The field in NY-13 is set, Powers (R) v McMahon (D).
  • Field cleared in NY-26 for Chris Lee.
  • Tight race in WY-AL
• Cornyn romping in TX-SEN.
• Indiana's Secretary of State argues that the voter id law that just cleared SCOTUS worked.

• Presidential stuff:
  • Bob Novak puts McCain ahead in the electoral college. Would this even be a race if we nominated anyone else?
  • McCain beats Obama in Michigan. Are these bitter, churchgoing, gun owning working class whites? MyDD notes that putting Hillary on the ticket would swing the state back to the Dems
  • McCain winning the foreign policy fight.
  • White women don't like Barack.
  • Barack has another pastor problem.
• Sarah Palin getting looked at by McCain.
• Senate races:
  • Wicker down by 1 in the MS Senate race. We need more info on this.
  • Rothenberg calls LA Senate a tossup. We need more info on this.
• Tom Davis unloads on VA GOP.
• Richard Cizik on evangelicals and global warming.
• Obama's first 100 days: an attack on 14% of the US economy.
• A Democrat lies in VA-11.

Hopefully this will be a regular feature. Things that you need to read today.

• Hillary actually is a better candidate for the Demcrats than Barack Obama, according to Gallup.
  • Ben Smith has more on this, with maps.
  • In the meantime, Rasmussen has McCain up 4 over Obama.
• LA-06 GOP primary runoff rematch. Will voters care that Woody Jenkins got trounced in the special?
• Either Republican potential nominee in NH-1 defeats Democratic anti-war protester and Deaniac turned Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter. H/T badlydrawnjeff.
• Robichaud and Johnson Open Memo to Republicans about the trouble we are in.
• DNC wheels out lawyers to provide Florida and Michigan with only 1/2 their vote.
• Mark Hemingway notes that Obama has big lobbyist/bundler problems himself. Bet the press won't cover that.
• Heritage (an advertiser) points out that Obama opposes the South Korea FTA which would decrease the between trade deficit $3b and $4.5b (net) and add to the economy.
• Jeffrey Toobin interviewed Roger Stone (!)

What else is out there that we missed?