Carville: “I still hear some dogs barking. I’m for Senator Clinton, but I think the great likelihood is that Obama will be the nominee. As soon as I determine when that is, I’ll send him a check.”

Delays dashed White House hopes for Gitmo trials to highlight this election year, but charges against some of the alleged 9/11 plotters promise to keep Gitmo front and center during the pre-trial wrangling between now and November.

John McCain’s got so much experience in dealing with rogue regimes that he’s got the rogue regimes’ lobbyists running his campaign …

High-res version at Veracifier.com.

I’ll be very curious just he’s going to be able to square this circle. But apparently John Hagee, John McCain endorser and radical preacher, is now apologizing to Catholics for giving them such a hard shake. When I saw the headline I was more than a little curious to see how he’d explain that since his brand of anti-Catholicism is deeply woven into the strain of Protestantism he embraces. Did he suddenly discover that he’d misinterpreted the Book of Revelation?

Apparently so. Who says modern events can’t be brought to bear on biblical exegesis?

Writes Hagee …

I better understand that reference to the Roman Catholic Church as the “apostate church” and the “great whore” described in the Book of Revelation is a rhetorical device long employed in anti-Catholic literature and commentary. I hope you recognize that I have repeatedly stated that my interpretation of Revelation leads me to conclude that the “apostate church” and the “great whore” appear only during the seven years of tribulation after all true believers – Catholic and Protestant – have been taken up to heaven. Therefore, neither of these phrases can be synonymous with the Catholic Church.

Can we now get him to explain the part about God using Muslim terrorists to create bloodbaths in our streets because the US supports a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine?

Following up on what I mentioned in the post below, now that McCain backer John Hagee is trying to walk back his attacks on the Catholic Church, I’m curious whether he’s going to have any follow up on what he claims is God’s embrace of Islamic terrorists creating a “bloodbath” in the United States. As Hagee explains, it’s not Iran or al Qaeda behind the Jihadists plotting mass casualty terrorist attacks against the US. It’s God himself.

As you can see in this video clip, Hagee says that God is using Islamic terrorists to create a “bloodbath” in the US in order to punish us for supporting the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

I’m dying to hear McCain’s campaign get asked about this. But so far it hasn’t happened.

They’re going all out in the Republican primary for the open seat of Democrat Darlene Hooley in Oregon. One of the GOP candidates says he had no choice but to publicize a two-year-old email accusing his opponent of paying for an abortion for a woman he impregnated.

I wouldn’t want to be seated between those two at the next Lincoln Day event.

I can’t say there’s going to be a huge amount of suspense. But join us at 7:30 when we’ll be bringing you live election results from the West Virginia primary (aka, Sen. Clinton’s A West Virginia apotheosis). More suspensefully, starting at 8 PM we’ll be bringing you live results from the special election in Mississippi’s 1st district. This is the race to replace Rep. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and it’s similar to the race Dems recently won in Louisiana — a blood red district (even redder than the one Rep. Don Cazayoux (D-LA) won) where the Democrat, Travis Childers (D-MS) is running neck and neck with Republican Greg Davis (R-MS).

To give some perspective, George Bush won this district 62% to 37%. So the fact that the Democrat is even in the hunt is pretty astounding. Like I said, the polls close at 8 PM Eastern.

The DCCC dropped a last minute mailer in Mississippi’s 1st District (where they’re holding an election today) claiming that Republican Greg Davis had offered up his town of Southaven, where he’s mayor, as the new home for a statue of Confederate general and founder of the Klu Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest. The NRCC flipped out and sent out a press release claiming that the claim was a lie — that it was a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, not Forrest. And their response got picked up in a piece in Roll Call.

But now with the help of TPM Reader AV, we’ve found a contemporary news account which appears to confirm the DCCC mailer’s account.

The Hill has a piece out where it asks the 97 senators not running for President whether they would accept an offer to be Vice President.

Sharped-eyed reader RM makes a very good catch:

Don’t you find it odd that three Republican Senators (Thad Cochran, 70; Pete Domenici, 76; Chuck Grassley, 74) all noted that they were too old to be Vice President. Kind of odd given the circumstances of the current Republican nominee…

Early exit poll demographic data highlights from the AP.

Here’s one set of numbers that jumped out at me.

RACE, GENDER AS VOTING FACTORS

One in four Clinton voters and about one in 10 Obama voters said race was an important factor in their vote.

About one in five Clinton voters said gender was an important factor in their vote. Nearly as many Obama voters said that.