It may be the legendarily slow month of August, but in campaign land, it's a frenzy, John Dickerson points out at Slate. That's right--we have less than 82 days to go:

In campaign time, this means that when you're sleep-deprived and crazed, the race feels like it's never going to end--but the rest of the time it feels like you'll never accomplish everything you need to. The pace of a hyper-fast news cycle means that the back-and-forth between opponents that used to take up a week can now be dispatched with in an afternoon.

This week, the back and forth is all about the evangelicals...and, on both sides of the aisle, abortion. Next week, will it be the VP? We'll see.