In the Headlines

"Roles of Clintons at Convention Start to Clear" (Katharine Seelye, New York Times) - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton asked the question herself, on the last night of the primaries in June: "What does Hillary want?"

"McCain Takes On Populist Tone Over Job Cuts in Ohio" (Alex Roth and Elizabeth Holmes, Wall Street Journal) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday jumped onto a populist, anticorporate bandwagon, appearing before workers expected to lose their jobs in the planned shutdown of a large DHL air cargo hub here, and promising to use government powers in an effort to prevent the loss-plagued company from slashing jobs.

"Flip-flops more fashionable this election" (Jill Lawrence, USA Today) - Models of consistency they are not. But because of who they are and the times they are running in, political analysts say, presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain are not likely to be felled by charges of flip-flopping.

"Could Lieberman be McCain's most potent VP pick?" (David Lightman, McClatchy) - If a few votes had shifted eight years ago, Joseph Lieberman might now be the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Instead, the Connecticut senator, who won re-election in 2006 as an independent, is one of Republican John McCain's more potent political weapons, maybe even potent enough to make another run at vice president, this time as a Republican.

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