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.

Is McCain going to have a campaign staff left by this time next month? The latest member of Team McCain to leave is chief strategist and media adviser Mark McKinnon. McKinnon, a former Democrat and a key part of George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns, said he is "transitioning, shifting position from linebacker to head cheerleader." Of even more interest is this nugget:

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.

On Monday, Sen. Lieberman forwarded a letter to Dr. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. In his letter, Sen. Lieberman requested that Google's video service, Youtube, remove several allegedly pro—al-Qaeda videos from their site.

Via Talking Points Memo, Republican Representative Vito Fossella is expected to announce Tuesday that he will not seek re-election. My only peeve with this story is that it has a subtitle stating:

Sources: NY Rep. Fossella won't seek re-election after scandal over affair, child, DWI

This is kind of like saying the Bush administration had a scandal over prewar intelligence, Hurrican Katrina, the treatment of veterans and taking a pair of scissors to the Fourth Amendment.

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.