Senator Barack Obama will address supporters in Iowa tonight even as the ballots in Oregon are still being counted. It is projected that he will pass the majority threshold in pledged delegates tonight, although what that means for the primary contest in a general sense (i.e. whether it will end any sooner than June 3) remains to be seen. The Huffington Post has an advance copy of his speech here.

Senator Hillary Clinton jumped out to a big lead in Kentucky early in the count and did not relinquish it. As of 9:00 PM CST, CNN has the numbers at 65/30 for Clinton with 99% reporting. You'll have to wait a bit for Oregon's results, which aren't expected to start rolling in until 10:00 PM CST.

Keith Olbermann just reported that turnout in Oregon — a state where all votes are mailed or dropped off — is expected to be 50 percent. That's a million people, and I'm willing to bet it is a higher turnout than Oregon has seen in quite a while. Never let it be said that that Democratic primary of 2008, as long it was, didn't have staying power or generate interest all the way through.

Minority Leader John Boehner has refused repeated calls to remove Oklahoma Republican Congressman Tom Cole as the head of the NRCC. Now some rank-and-files have the knives out for both of them. Politico has the story.

My initial take on the McCain campaign was that it would do everything possible to distance the candidate from President George Bush, seeing as how his presidency may instantly turn into a giant liability if the two of them are seen or photographed together, or if the rumor starts that they ever inhabited the same planet. So I was surprised to hear about Bush's robust plans to campaign for (and with) McCain. The Nation's John Nichols was surprised, too.

McCain has had a hard enough time with all the stories about him and lobbyists being thick as thieves. But people keep quitting his campaign over extreme lobbying campaign gaffes, like this guy who fell victim to the fact that A) he runs a lobbying firm, and B) his lobbying firm is going to bat for Airbus, Saudi Arabia, and other extra-national interests. And here I thought forced resignations were supposed to taper off after you had the nomination.

Jon Stewart once asked, wistfully, "Oh Bill Kristol, are you ever right?" As Kristol continues to write columns, the odds are starting to stack up against it. ("It" being "Bill Kristol ever being right.")

Speaker Tom Craddick has been running some defensive noise as of late with his "ghost worker" business, and Fort Worth State Representative Lon Burnam is calling him on it.

Via Think Progress: If you aren't familiar with Michelle Malkin, you could say that she fancies herself as a New Media hybrid of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh, lacking the clout and / or popularity of both. Witness the prime blogger outrage when she discovers that she has not been invited to take part in John McCain's weekly New Media conference calls.

The argument that the GOP regularly makes when pushing any new Voter ID legislation largely concerns voter fraud. The commentary is almost always a painful picture of people taking advantage of lax ID requirements to vote over and over again, or of nefarious campaigns fixing elections and subverting the will of the people.