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The Obama campaign goes for more cool cred.

The Secret Service is investigating after a cat was found burned to death and propped up next to an Obama campaign yard sign. The display was found near a Minneapolis polling location for today’s local primaries. A threat to President Obama in the form of a burned cat staked to a tree stump drew officers from several city and federal …

The poll was conducted prior to the Ryan announcement, which usually provides a short-lived “excitement” bump for the non-incumbent. Details. Cross-tabs. Questions.

After years of touring the South, travel writer Chuck Thompson has published a book calling for them to once again secede. Salon wants to know if he’s for real. Thompson says he’s dead serious. “What really led to this call for secession was understanding that a lot of people from the South are just as sick and tired of people …

The ad referenced was actually created by a Super-PAC unrelated to the Obama campaign. It’s been by far the leading topic on GOP blogs for the last few days.

The president will make his formal nomination acceptance speech on the final day of the convention at Charlotte’s 74,000-seat Bank Of America Stadium. Free tickets for the general public became available yesterday on a first-come first-serve basis. The media has noted that press releases have avoided using the actual name of the venue, merely referring to it as “the stadium” …

Only 88 more days of this.

Enjoy.

“I am President Obama’s classmate at Columbia University, Class of ’83. I am also one of the most accurate Vegas odds makers and prognosticators. Accurate enough that I was awarded my own star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. And I smell something rotten in Denmark. Obama has a big skeleton in his closet. It’s his college records. Call …

A senior official from the Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed that under the Affordable Healthcare Act, federally funded agencies and providers will be barred from discriminating against transgender patients. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: In response to a letter sent by a dozen LGBT health and advocacy organizations to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in June, Leon Rodriguez …

The usual warnings: possible outlier, convention bumps to come, etc etc. Source. (Tipped by JMG reader Dwight)

Note the sotto voce ending.

Eleven electronic billboards such as the above will greet the president during his Florida campaign stop this Thursday. The images rotate with messages from local business owners. The Romney campaign has certainly made hay over that one comment.

The Mormon Church-affiliated genealogy site Ancestry.com today made the claim that they have traced President Obama’s ancestry back to the very first documented slave in what would become the United States. That’s fascinating on its face, but the more interesting wrinkle here is that the connection is made through Obama’s white mother. Research derived by Ancestry.com from early Virginia records …