All eight of the democratic candidates are heading to the left-leaning YearlyKos conference in Chicago to court bloggers and harness the power of the Internet for their campaigns.

Plenty of sites are covering the event including of course Daily Kos and techPresident

The Associated Press is reporting on the dramatic change occurring in the McCain campaign. After big losses of both money and staff the Senator is now flying commercial, being driven in the cars of volunteers to and from events, carrying his own luggage and even missed a campaign event when his flight was delayed. It is a far cry from the early days of his campaign on the plush Straight Talk Express.

As the article points out, few people are writing him off believing this is the position McCain has always worked best in, that of the underdog.

Well this is sure to get some play. During an interview with the Associated Press Senator Barack Obama said he would not use nuclear weapons “in any circumstances.” Story at PR Wire and on Drudge

The DLC, which helped provide the intellectual ballast and political strategy for Bill Clinton’s presidency, seems to have fallen on hard times, at least in the élite precincts of the national political cacophony. A New York Times Op-Ed piece declared the group “radioactive” within the Democratic Party. None of the Democratic presidential candidates—not even Hillary Clinton, a prominent member of the DLC—deigned to come to Nashville in a year when the contenders are courting every imaginable interest group in the party, including the left-liberal bloggers gathering in Chicago this weekend for the YearlyKos convention.

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