Latest dispatches from the campaign trail, June 28, 2012

• The North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation releases a report tallying spending by outside groups in the 2012 primaries. The two biggest spenders: the State Employees Association of North Carolina and Common Sense Matters, a group funded by trial lawyers and the teacher union. Democrats got almost all the money.

• Dueling polls: Rasmussen Reports puts Pat McCrory 14 points ahead of Walter Dalton in the race for governor; NBC News/Marist places McCrory’s lead at 2 points.

• The General Assembly plans to adjourn before Independence Day. Then the campaign really begins.

• Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-10th, and Patsy Keever, the Democrat who wants his job, react to the Supreme Court’s decision on ObamaCare.

• Democrats in the North Carolina delegation split on the vote holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress in the Fast and Furious probe: Reps. Larry Kissell (7th), Mike McIntyre (8th), and Brad Miller (13th) support the contempt resolution; Reps. David Price (4th) and Heath Shuler (11th) oppose it. Reps. G.K. Butterfield (1st) and Mel Watt (12th) join a boycott.