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Political junkies waiting to hear who Obama chooses as his veep aren't sitting by the television, radio or computer. Rather, they're keeping cell phones in hand, looking for a text from the junior senator from Illinois.

A new poll finds that likely voters are much more comfortable with how John McCain would deal with Russia than how Obama would.

Quinnipiac University finds that American likely voters say 55 to 27 percent that McCain is better qualified than Obama to deal with Russia, according to a QU release.

Who do you think would better deal with Russia? Why?

The two presumptive presidential candidates both talk God Saturday in appearances with Pastor Rick Warren.

We're going to look at leadership, specifically their character, their competence, their experience," Warren tells ABC's Jake Tapper. "Many evangelicals think neither of these guys are . . . I think both John McCain and Barack Obama and their relationship to Jesus Christ is their relationship. But I'm going to give them a chance to explain themselves."

That honor belongs to...

Wikipedia.

CQ reports that McCain's speech on Georgia includes several passages that look similar to the Wikipedia page on the nation.

What does it say about the McCain campaign that he's allegedly cribbing material from WIkipedia?

The New York Sun's editorial page wonders if the forces might be aligning for Hillary to make a run for the Democratic nomination:

Obama needs to respond to McCain's Paris Hilton advertisement because it casts the Democratic presidential candidate as an outsider. That's New York Sen. Chuck Schumer's view.

Are young voters getting bored of Obama?

Guy Benson thinks so.

As Obamania reached its frenzied pinnacle in March, fully 66 percent of voters 18-29 told pollsters they were "certain" to cast ballots in November. By late July, that figure dropped by a whopping 20 percentage points, with less than half of the youth vote still vowing to go to the polls this fall.

A few weeks away, the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are the next major milestone in the race to the White House.

What are your expectations for the conventions? Do you expect the candidates to make any major announcements there? Pick a running mate?

As a voter (or observer of American politics, at least), what would distinguish a successful convention from a lousy one?

It's not that the press has gone soft on Obama, but rather that the presumptive Democratic candidate has withstood the criticism, Jack Shafer argues.

What's unique about Obama and his candidacy is that almost none of the stuff the press throws at him sticks. Nor is the press alone in its inability to stick him.

And the reason that the bad press has rolled off is because voters have such a positive impression of Obama:

Team McCain, flustered that the national press corps is devoting its attention to Obama in Europe, issued reporters covering him on Tuesday special press passes, reading: "McCain Press Corps: JV Squad: Left behind to report in America." 

How unfair is the press' coverage of Obama?