The Huffington Post

Barack Obama’s statement that John McCain is “losing his bearings” leads the Post, whose headline counts down the number of days — 179 — left until the general election. Obama was responding to McCain’s remark that Hamas would support the Illinois Democrat’s election. The Post also links to a New York Times story about Arianna Huffington’s scoop revealing that McCain didn’t vote for George W. Bush in the 2000 general election, a story that McCain denies. In the lead blog post, Kevin Phillips explains how elected officials have reformulated how the government calculates the Consumer Price Index so that it no longer reflects the increased pain consumers are feeling.