From a Washington Post feature on Rand Paul, GOP senate candidate in Kentucky and son of Ron Paul:

According to his mother, Carol, he was, like his father before him, a talented athlete (a defensive back in football) and more ambitious than his two brothers, whose names both begin with the letter R. During swim meets in high school, "he wanted his name on the board," she said. "He didn't want just R. Paul, because they are all R. Paul.

Carly Fiorina, running for the GOP Senate nomination in California, attacks Tom Campbell:

A new poll has Marco Rubio ahead of Charlie Crist in the Florida GOP Senate primary. The trajectory here is pretty obvious: Crist built an early lead based on name recognition, but Rubio is obviously the candidate Florida Republicans prefer and are going to nominate.

Congressional Quarterly's Shira Toeplitz has a good rundown on all the ways in which presumptive Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Pat Toomey has moved to the center ever since Arlen Specter bolted for the Democratic Party. Which makes me again wonder whether it was a mistake for Obama to encourage Specter's defection.**