SEN. CHUCK HAGEL: "I think John is treading on some very thin ground here when he impugns motives and when we start to get into, 'You're less patriotic than me. I’m more patriotic.'" [USA Today, TPM]

POLL: Obama 49 percent, McCain 40 percent. [Gallup]

JOHN MCCAIN: (on housing situation) "Congress is at fault. We didn’t restrain spending." Replies Stephanopoulos: "But what does that have to do with the mortgage crisis?" [Time]