From the Wall Street Journal

Sen. John McCain’s well-known media team has resigned, an indication that his campaign shake-up is continuing to backfire and imperiling the Arizona Republican’s presidential candidacy.

Political ad-makers Russ Schriefer and Stuart Stevens, veterans of President Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, on Monday emailed the new campaign manager — lobbyist and longtime McCain adviser Rick Davis — to say that they were quitting. The two men told friends they had considered leaving for days, as they hadn’t been paid and the campaign’s financial straits raised questions of when and how much they would be.

Set in the theme of constellations Politico’s Map of the Blogosphere is a pretty cool visual representation of blogs that are “out there” in the blog ether organized around political/functional constellations.

I don’t know if NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is doing to run or not. I don’t think ANYONE has an idea even though they are spending plenty of time speculating. I will say that Bloomberg has done a great job of turning such speculation into endless media attention (not a bad thing when your last name is also the name of a giant media corporation). Bloomberg has done it again with mike2008.com a site that currently points to his official personal Web site.

The domain name has revived the the speculation of a Bloomberg.

One of the great advantages of the Internet and the current swarm of 24/7 media outlets is that you don’t actually have to run for president to begin running for president. Just ask Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, Fred Thompson & of course Bloomberg.

The Huffington Posts’ Off the Bus section caught up with as many of the successfuly video submitters as they could find to get their thoughts on how they thought their questions were answered. Check it out.

A behind the scenes look from a New York Times Blog interview of David Bohrman, the Washington bureau chief of CNN. Bohrman was the chief coordinator for the debate.

From the blog:

“We vetted people if we had any real doubt about them,” he said. CNN did this in the case of a student who said in his video that he had earned a 3.0 grade point average in high school but had not cracked a book. CNN checked with the school and learned that he did, indeed, have a 3.0 GPA. Alas, his question did not make the final cut.

The team also discovered that perhaps 20 supporters of Senator Joseph Biden had all submitted videos asking the exact same question. Mr. Cooper gently chided the Biden camp at the beginning of the debate for trying to manipulate the process.

Some celebrities from the entertainment industry submitted videos, but Mr. Bohrman would not reveal who they were. He said he nixed them, as well as those from public officials, because he wanted to keep the debate for “real” people.