Marking Calendars
Aside from the primary date manueverings noted in today's Staff post, there are other political calendar items worth noting. Adam Nagourney of the New York Times offers a useful if hardly comprehensive list of upcoming political "moments" that we already know about, including three in the next week (Fred Thompson's announcement on 9/6, Oprah Winfrey's "house party" fundraiser for Obama on 9/8, and the release of the Petraeus report on Iraq on 9/10). You get the feeling--if only from the frequent references to not-so-viable candidate John McCain--that Nagourney and/or his research assistants put this item into the can some time ago. But it merits a look.