Here are a few quick updates on the movements of the Presidential candidates:

* Sen. Barack Obama was the only major Dem Presidential candidate who's campaign did not contribute any cash on Wednesday at a fundraiser for the South Carolina Democratic Party's primary fund. South Carolina Democratic officials, including House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, have said that it wasn't a slight as budget considerations between "want to" and "have to" allocations of money are unknown outside of the individual campaigns.

* Sen. John McCain spoke out against repealing the military's discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy last night in New York City, claiming that it is working well. He made no mention, however, of the at least 322 service members with skills in Arabic, Farsi, Korean and other critical languages who have been discharged since 1993 because of the policy.

* The AFL-CIO is threatening to ask Democrats to move their nominating convention out of Denver, Colorado because Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter vetoed a bill that would have made it easier for unions to organize. The labor-organizing bill is likely to be re-introduced and the union is making the threat as leverage to get Ritter to guarantee that he won't veto the new bill.

* Karl Rove called Sen. Barack Obama "articulate" yesterday while speaking at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. Sen. Joe Biden got in trouble earlier this year when he described Obama as "articulate" and "clean," terms which some say are historically loaded with negative implications for African-Americans.

* Sen. Christopher Dodd announced today that Reps. Xavier Becerra and Rosa DeLauro and former Sen. Jim Sasser will serve as national co-chairmen for his presidential campaign. They join Sanford Cloud, former president of the National Conference for Community and Justice, in leading Dodd’s effort.

More after the jump.

* Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has wooed Rep. Peter King away from Sen. John McCain. King co-chaired McCain's 2000 campaign, but will be supporting his fellow New Yorker this time around.

* Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney recently named Jason Roe, a former aide to Rep. Tom Feeney of Florida, as his third deputy campaign manager. Romney has also formed a women's leadership team in South Carolina that will include Debbie DeMint, the wife of Sen. Jim DeMint, former South Carolina First Lady Ann Edwards, National Committeewoman for the state GOP Cindy Costa and state Rep. Nikki Haley.

* A group of Massachusetts Republicans is planning to go after former Mass Gov. Mitt Romney with a series of nation-wide attack ads and a website calling him a flip-flopper. The group is called Massachusetts Republicans for Truth.

* Romney touted coal as an important part of America's future energy policy while speaking in West Virgina yesterday. He also praised West Virgina's Democratic Governor, Joe Manchin, as "a great Democratic governor with postures like a Republican.”

* Sen. Barack Obama's $100-a-ticket New York City fundraiser is sold out tonight even after moving to a bigger room. It will be Obama's second NYC cash grab of the day as he and his wife, Michelle, will also appear at a $1,000-a-ticket affair earlier in the day.

* New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will deliver the keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign's Los Angeles Gala Dinner on March 24.

* Maryland is the latest state to push for an earlier primary date. Gov. Martin O'Malley and leaders of both legislative chambers are in favor of moving the primary for both parties from March 4 to Feb. 12. The move would set up a quasi-"regional primary" with Virgina, whose primary date is also Feb. 12.

* The investment bank Bear Stearns has invited all of the Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates to visit its New York City headquarters to address its top bankers and raise cash.

* Former Senator John Edwards was in Houston, Texas yesterday for a fundraiser. The Texas lawyer hosting the shindig, John Eddie Williams, also recently hosted a fundraiser for Sen. Joe Biden. Edwards also recently picked up the endorsement of former Texas Representative and 2006 candidate for Governor Chris Bell.

* Rep. Dennis Kucinich will be the keynote speaker on Saturday at a gathering of Progressive Democratic groups and activist organizations in San Antonio, Texas. Kucinich will attend two fundraisers after the event. He will then travel to Minnesota on Sunday to address the 6th
Congressional District Democratic Farm-Labor Party meeting.

* Sen. John McCain picked up a slew of endorsements yesterday including former North Carolina Republican Party chairman Ferrell Blount, former Charlotte, North Carolina Mayor Richard Vinroot and prominent California Republican Gerald Parsky, who has recieved federal appointments from each of the last five Republican presidents. McCain also announced that New Hampshire state Rep. Maureen Mooney will act as the chair of his conservative outreach in the Granite state.

* Rep. Dennis Kucinich is being forced to re-pay the Federal Elections Commission $135,000 in public matching funds he used in 2004 after he had become ineligible to use them. The Kucinich campaign has disputed the claims of the FEC's auditors.

* Iowa state Rep. Janet Peterson recieved a phone call recently from Sen. Hillary Clinton while she was in the middle of giving birth to her son. Clinton purportedly called to speak to Peterson because the Iowa Democrat would be unable to attend a private meeting Hillary was holding with state Democrats in Des Moines on Monday.

* Iowa is the big campaign destination this weekend as Sen. John McCain, Sen. Sam Brownback, Sen. Barack Obama, former Sen. John Edwards and Sen. Joe Biden will each be making stops in the state. Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson will also be in Iowa over the weekend.