• Things are even worse than we thought in our post yesterday about John McCain's absenteeism from the Senate — McCain hasn't made a single vote since April 12, and has missed 42 floor votes in a row!

• Ben Smith reports that Barack Obama's campaign will circulate a petition at New Hampshire campaign events specifically calling on the state's two GOP Senators, Judd Gregg and John Sununu, to change their votes on Iraq.

• Ron Paul supporters are deluging GOP offices in Michigan and South Carolina with complaints about proposals to exclude Paul from future debates — so the South Carolina GOP is giving out Paul's cell-phone number.

• James Dobson: "Speaking as a private citizen and not on behalf of any organization or party, I cannot, and will not, vote for Rudy Giuliani in 2008. It is an irrevocable decision. If given a Hobson's – Dobson's? – choice between him and Sens. Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama, I will either cast my ballot for an also-ran – or if worse comes to worst – not vote in a presidential election for the first time in my adult life. My conscience and my moral convictions will allow me to do nothing else."

• Sam Brownback's campaign has sent out a letter to supporters: "Unfortunately one of the current front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination, Rudy Giuliani, is a vocal and unapologetic supporter of the 'right' to abortion ... It is a sad statement when the President of Planned Parenthood-the largest abortion provider in America-is praising the leading Republican candidate. This is NOT the direction our party needs to take."

• Newt Gingrich says the current Presidential candidates are "demeaning the Presidency by reducing it to being a game show contest," and too much time raising money and not enough focusing on real ideas.

• Mitt Romney's campaign says a "JFK Speech" separating himself politically from the Mormon Church is still an option for them, but the candidate's outreach to the general population is going well.

• Leading Senators have struck a deal on an immigration bill that would give a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already here. Passage of this bill could potentially impact the Republican Presidential race in a big way, with the more conservative candidates like Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo and others deeply opposed to it.

• Mitt Romney has picked up his first endorsement from a New Hampshire state Senator, Bob Letourneau of Derry.

• Ron Paul is standing by his contention that American foreign policy helped lead to 9/11. "I found two very clear quotes in the 9/11 Commission report that says that very thing, that our foreign policy has a very great deal to do with their willingness and desire to commit suicide terrorism," Paul said.

• Tom Tancredo has set a high bar: He want to come at least fifth place in the Iowa Straw Poll.

• Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC) talked to the Washington Post about the dissatisfaction among Republican activists about their PResidential field, and says it fundamentally has to do with dissatisfaction among Republicans about their party's shape, period.

• Dr. Peter Agre, the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and professor at Duke University, as well as a founding member of Scientists and Engineers for America, announced yesterday that he is taking a leave of absence from his duties at Duke to consider a run for Senate from Minnesota. Agre, born and raised in Minnesota, would likely join Al Franken and Mike Ciresi in the DFL primary race to challenge incumbent Republican Norm Coleman. — Andrew Cleary

• Barack Obama's online campaign videos will now include closed captioning, for the benefit of deaf and hearing-impaired supporters.

• Barack Obama is part Irish — or should we call him "O'Bama?"

• John Edwards has gotten advice from John Mayer about how to reach young voters.

• Porno icon Jenna Jameson has endorsed Hillary Clinton.