Lest we forget that Mississippi votes today in the last contest before Pennsylvania. 33 delegates are at stake and Obama appears to have a pretty commanding lead in the polls there. Here: avail yourself of Hufffington's massive compilation of news and happenings concerning today's contest.

Mike Ciresi, who had been competing for the DFL nomination to run against Senator Norm Coleman in Minnesota, quit the race yesterday, saying he wanted to avoid a floor fight at the state convention. The two remaining major candidates are Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, and of course, Al Franken.

While everything else is going on, John McCain is trying to raise enough money to compete in the general. To put the hill he has to climb in perspective: Obama and Clinton, thus far, have raised $195 million and $173 million, respectively; McCain has managed only $55 million in total.

The NSA is more or less collecting information on what citizens spend and buy and who they talk to. You may have thought that was going on already, but the unsettling part out today is how wide the NSA's net is.

You're going to see many campaign ads for many state house races this cycle, but how many will you see that are musicals? A campaign ad for John McClelland puts the two together for instance #1:

Fox News is reporting that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer will resign this evening after a report showed ties between Spitzer and a prostitution ring. Spitzer made no mention of resigning during a statement to the press earlier today. More as it comes.

Not that I normally want to push the Weekly Standard on our readers or anything, but a lot of fat is going in the fire for Romney as VP, and that bears notice.

Plenty of information to go around on the next step in the attorney firing scandal.

Bwahaha. Via Crooks and Liars:

Insiders tell TVNewser Tucker Carlson’s 6pmET show Tucker is getting the axe, but Carlson stays on as a political contributor to all MSNBC shows at least through the 2008 election.

Halliburton subsidiary KBR provided military personnel with unsafe water for personal hygiene, says a forthcoming Defense Department inquiry.