Story at ClickZ:

Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign spent less than half what fellow candidate Senator John Edwards did on issue-based search ads in May, but McCain got far more bang for his buck. That’s according to a new report from search firm iCrossing, based on data from AdGooroo and Google AdWords, and a survey from Opinion Research.

Story from NY1.

John D’Amato’s family says he died of a heart attack while jogging yesterday.

Along with Giuliani, D’Amato, 52, worked with several other New York Republicans over his career, including Councilman James Oddo and Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro.

More recently D’Amato was on the board of directors for NYC 2012, the city’s failed bid for the Olympics.

He also worked as a trial lawyer, representing over 100 family members in hearings before the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund. Giuliani hired him to manage his campaign in the city just two months ago.

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From Salon Senator Joe Biden actually says a few things about online campaigning and the 2008 Race

How angry will you be if this turns out not to be a serious election on the issues and is instead decided over who has the best “Sopranos” parody video or who had the most maladroit haircut? Or even, who shouts the loudest about how much they hate the Iraq war?

If it turns out to be that, I will be very disappointed that I didn’t spend the summer at Rehoboth Beach [Delaware]. You think I’m kidding, I’m not. And it would mean that the Democrats are going to lose if that’s what happens.

But I don’t think that’s where it is. I think that of the candidates who might fit into that categoric description now, it’s possible that one of them could step up. I think one of them can. Others can’t.

Do you think in the era of YouTube and video cellphones, you can get away with being Joe Biden? I mean being a guy who in the space of two minutes in Cedar Rapids started to tell a joke about Al Gore and the Internet and made a reference to George Wallace in a discussion of healthcare plans.

The answer is probably not. But I’ll tell you what — one of the things I’m not going to do. I’m not going to let that system alter who I am. For example, one of the things that happens is that the public is coming to grips with how to deal with this instant, unfiltered information that may be deliberately mis-edited.

But I think — and this is naive maybe — I have confidence that the American people will put this in perspective. Like when one of the bloggers said, “We’re going to take back the Democratic Party.”

They don’t own the Democratic Party. What are they talking about? So, for example, my pointing out George Wallace from 1968 and quoting what he said, somebody could take that out of context and say “Biden quoted Wallace,” making it sound like Biden is being favorable about Wallace.

This weekend Giuliani was publiclly jeered in Florida according to the Associated Press when he rejected the idea of a flat-tax. After he realized he was on the unpopular end of the issue he said he would look into the issue further. (FYI In 1996 Giuliani said such a tax system “would be a terrible mistake for urban areas,”)

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