FOR JUST ONE DAY, DEAN OUT-FUNDRAISES BUSH

The Dean campaign announced that Howard Dean had raised $508,640 since Friday in its web challenge to beat out the $250,000 Dick Cheney was slated to raise in South Carolina yesterday. The A.P. gives some perspective (second item), noting that Cheney's Monday haul was a relative drop in the Bush re-election bucket: "Since Bush launched his bid for re-election on May 16, his campaign has raised at least $41.4 million, including $7 million on a recent two-day swing through Texas. That's more than $635,000 a day and counting since the effort started."

For a more celebratory account of Dean's accomplishment, see Glen Johnson in the Boston Globe.