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Obama on Offense
TPMCafe — ... Recent articles in the New Yorker and the New York Times have made it clear that Barack and his team are adept at Chicago style street fighting politics. In terms of organizers on the ground Obama beats McCain 3:1. All the old politics blabocrats on cable TV are still measuring this race in terms of old time memes. But the Republicans are clearly worried about the millions of new registered voters. As the Wall Street Journal bravely reported this morning, the Republicans are up to their old tricks-- ...

Historic Convention Bounces
Open Left - Front Page — ... the most important question heading into the convention is "who is currently overperforming?" The answer to this question isn't as easy as it might seem. On the one hand, Obama is scoring well under the current Democratic Party advantage in generic ballots and partisan favorability. As such, it must seem like McCain is currently over-performing and thus will receive a smaller convention bounce. However, on the other hand, Obama holds a 35-1 advantage in daily voter contacts, a more than 3-1 advantage in field offices, has a decent lead in paid media, and a ...

Team McCain: Leave Sarah Springer Alooooooone!
Firedoglake — ... The dirty little secret about the McCain campaign all along has been that they have no infrastructure or ground game, and Rick Davis has been tap dancing around any and all questions about GOTV efforts for months and thus far S ...

The fog and the field
The Reality-Based Community — ... , and here (and, more generally, Sean Quinn of fivethirtyeight.com's outstanding coverage of the whole field game). It's not close. I have no idea whether the (Nagourney) Dowd thesis is valid. But if it is, McCain is in deep, deep, trouble.