Yesterday was primary day in Colorado, that square state to our northwest. In a bit of news that gives me hope for the other side of the isle, State Representative Doug Bruce (R-Colorado Springs) was defeated in the GOP primary in State House District 15.

The DNC has finally responded with their play on John Cornyn's tacky "Big John" video. But, instead of going after Cornyn, the national party has gone after John McCain, linking him to big oil.

Katy bar the door! The ever-increasing role that the Big Oil meme plays in all levels of our political system took a surprising turn last week in Tennessee. In the Republican primary for Tennessee's First Congressional District, incumbent freshman Representative David Davis lost to Johnson City Mayor Phil Roe 49%-50%. What was the primary reason for Representative Davis' loss? He took money from oil PACs.

While the McCain camp is crying bloody murder that Obama is playing the race card, Florida Senator Mel Martinez, a Republican, says Obama has done no such thing.

Riffing off J-Michael's item about the closeness of the Presidential race in Texas, the fine folks over at Pollster.com have a great new feature running that will be like catnip for Presidential election junkies.

Pollster.com now has a front page national map with the polling averages state-by-state for the 2008 Presidential race, 2008 Senate races and 2008 Governor's races.

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has been indicted on seven counts of making false statements in his financial filings.

Radovan Karadzic, the former President of the rump Bosnian Serb government and indicted war criminal, was arrested Monday in Serbia.

The Chron has a story this morning on the political battle lines being drawn in Harris County for the '08 cycle. They spot Democrats as ahead of Republicans in fundraising and campaign resources, and note some of the more active organizations in the area working to keep that lead.

I was hoping Michael Savage's wannabe-scientific ramblings on kids with autism just being "brats" with bad parents wouldn't actually get much play; the last thing I want to do is give that guy a bigger mouthpiece. But now he's made the Times for his ignorance. I can only imagine the spike in listeners that he'll get out of it.

I was one of many people who thought that perhaps this was the election where the fundamentalist base of the Republican Party finally divorces itself from a "not conservative enough" Republican candidate. But there's been plenty of evidence that the relationship between Senator John McCain and the leading luminaries of the fundamentalist movement like the leader of Focus on the Family, James Dobson, and Pastor John Hagee of San Antonio's Cornerstone Church is as strong as ever.