Time has an article about how this might be (will be, may be) the election young people turn out in droves and change the electorate. I personally am not buying it as this article is written every election year and has never come true but I am not faulting the writer or those trying. Young people turned out in the largest numbers we’ve seen in the last presidential election, so did the general population. It was nice to see but for those who think young people voting will bring in some revolutionary candidate who will bring about a magically happy-land of new tame politics I will point out that in the last two elections where youth voting was trending up, George Bush was elected both times.

The John Edwards haircut stories just won’t go away.

From Capitol Hill Blue Reality bites the Ron Paul campaign Fundraising projections more hype than truth points out a little something I have had in my mind. After the debates those close to Paul claimed huge fundraising was underway. The campaign says it did manage to raise about $1.5 million, which is still a nice drop in the hat for a national primary, but those $5 million figures being thrown around for awhile there were wildly off base.

ichael Kranish has an interesting piece in the Boston Globe about Fred Thompsons involvement in the Watergate hearings.

WASHINGTON — The day before Senate Watergate Committee minority counsel Fred Thompson made the inquiry that launched him into the national spotlight — asking an aide to President Nixon whether there was a White House taping system — he telephoned Nixon’s lawyer.

Thompson tipped off the White House that the committee knew about the taping system and would be making the information public. In his all-but-forgotten Watergate memoir, “At That Point in Time,” Thompson said he acted with “no authority” in divulging the committee’s knowledge of the tapes, which provided the evidence that led to Nixon’s resignation. It was one of many Thompson leaks to the Nixon team, according to a former investigator for Democrats on the committee, Scott Armstrong , who remains upset at Thompson’s actions.

John Whitesides writes in the Reuters:

Presidential politics spiced up Independence Day celebrations across Iowa on Wednesday, as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney competed for attention in the same parade and four other 2008 candidates blanketed the state.

Crowds jammed front lawns, porches and sidewalks in Clear Lake for a chance to see Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president, as well as Republican Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.