It seems to be a mostly good day for Obama. More new polls from Pennsylvania show him taking no hit from Bittergate, so far, and locked in a tight race -- even up in some polls. He leads by ten or so in national polls. He gets endorsed by an Indiana congressman/superdelegate and a big Pennsylvania newspaper, in addition to Springsteen.
There's also, however, a "true, but..." piece that gets front-page treatment in USA Today, looking at how much money he gets from the employees and partners of firms that do lobbying, while not taking any money from people who actually lobby -- and bragging about it a lot:
"...His fundraising team includes 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government, records show. Those lawyers, including 10 former federal lobbyists, have pledged to raise at least $3.5 million for the Illinois senator's presidential race. Employees of their firms have given Obama's campaign $2.26 million, a USA TODAY analysis of campaign finance data shows."
This is one of those situations where Obama actually has a good story to tell. He really doesn't take money from actual lobbyists, unlike his opponents, or PACs. And his small-donor Internet fundraising has been so huge that, in percentage terms, even the money given by employees of firms that lobby and big donors doesn't wield nearly the clout and influence it would in traditional campaigns.
But he's made so much out of the lobbyist thing, which is more symbolic than significant, that he's vulnerable to glass-half-empty stories.