? Kay Hagan campaigns today with Sens. Claire McCaskill and John Tester. At the GOP convention over the weekend, Elizabeth Dole slammed Obama but didn’t mention Hagan.

? Mike Huckabee’s Heimlich maneuver on Robert Pittenger at the convention made the national news.

? Big-league pundit Stuart Rothenberg of Roll Call includes North Carolina in his short list of competitive states in the Obama-McCain race.