Spin Cycle

Hillary dominates everyone's headlines. The NYT credits her with an "emphatic" plea for unity but says she also took "deliberate" steps to keep the door open for a future run and consulted with none other than Mark Penn on her speech.

DeFrank of the DN saw a renewal of her ambitions, too. And the AP, keeping count, found that she used some variation of the pronoun "I" 17 times.

The Washington Post sees signs that a lot of her bitter supporters were unpersuaded.

The Joe Biden archive grows. The WSJ focuses on his legislative efforts to maintain Delaware's primacy as a corporate haven and service the needs of his backers in the state's corporate-law bar. USA Today looks at his efforts to block asbestos litigation reform at a time his son was filing lawsuits that would have been blocked.

A lot of attention will be focused on Bill Clinton's speech tonight, but strategists tell Newsday that Biden's speech could be the real high-risk moment for the Democrats, given his history as a loose cannon.

McCain, offering a unique reading of history, told the American Legion that America didn't need the rest of the world to end the Cold War. NATO stands for Now America Takes Over?

Obama's fundraising is not keeping pace with his ambitious goals, partly because Hillary backers are not helping as much as expected.

Gov. Paterson's cameo at the convention was short, but an important moment for a politician trying to raise his national profile.

Westchester/Putnam Assemblyman Greg Ball stalked a girlfriend.

Bloomberg, who has shifted from encouraging loony speculation about the presidency or vice-presidency to encouraging loony speculation about a repeal of term limits, actually claims he can't remember how he originally voted on the issue.

The NYPost is going with the meth-heads plot against Obama angle.