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Who’s Obama vetting for Veep? A couple of early indicators reported today. That and the day’s other political news in the TPM Election Central Morning Roundup.
I’m John McCain and I do not approve this message from my top economic advisor!
Here’s the latest on Bush Administration efforts, as reported in the German media, to head off a huge Obama rally at the historic site in Berlin:
Indeed, Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt told the mass circulation tabloid Bild that “it would be nice if the German government would focus on strengthening its contacts to us rather than already beginning to look for our successors.”
We have more at TPM Election Central.
Late Update: And more still.
Latest Update: The Treasury Department tells TPM Election Central that Kimmit’s remarks were made last week and had nothing to do with the Brandenburg Gate or Obama’s visit.
Obama reportedly raised $30 million in June.
Late Update: Not so fast, says the Obama camp, which initially refused to comment on the WSJ‘s $30 million report. Now it’s saying the number is “way off the mark.”
TPM Election Central has obtained the list of races the DCCC is planning on spending its $34 million fall TV ad buy on.
The Treasury Department is telling us that media reports in Germany — quoting Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt on Obama’s possible Brandenburg Gate speech — took his remarks out of context and out of time: He made his remarks last week before the Brandenburg Gate speech became a story and had nothing to do with the speech or Obama’s planned trip to Germany.
Former Rep. Melissa Hart (R-PA), who’s running to get her seat back this year, concedes that China wasn’t drilling offshore Florida in Cuban waters when she repeated the GOP’s favorite myth of 2008 a few weeks ago — but they may have started drilling since then!
Obama has a new radio ad going up — in Virginia and Ohio, and possibly elsewhere — hitting McCain over taxes, TPM Election Central has learned.