Hillary’s brother meets with McCains victory chair

This’ll set tongues wagging: Hillary Clinton’s younger brother met with Carly Fiorina, the chair of the Republican party’s Victory 2008 committee, at a private gathering in Pennsylvania. The event was hosted by the national director of the Citizens for McCain coalition.

In the grand scheme of things this isn’t that important, but it re-injects the Clintons into the story at a time that Barack Obama is perceived to be struggling. (The story is, predictably, going crazy on the internet). Although Obama still leads in most polls his advantage is a narrow one, one poll today even has McCain up by five, and there are a few grumblings out there about his performance.

The consolation for Obama is that with his VP pick and the Democratic convention, he has a chance to bounce back. But it says something about the state of the race that Joe Klein, a pro-Obama columnist, is telling people not to be surprised if