The Daily Troika: '08 Buzz

SC GOPers and Dem leaders "have agreed to swap voting roles" to prevent people from "casting ballots in both primaries." SC Dem chair Joe Erwin: "I don't want people who have voted in their primary attempting to vote in ours." But it might be difficult to stop; the state election commission views the presidential primaries as straw polls, not real elections. About 25% of SC primary voters say they are independents. Swapping lists was the only way to prevent cross-overs. SC GOP chair Katon Dawson: "There was no other way to be able to stop anybody from crossing over." The Dem primary is tenatively scheduled for 1/29; the GOP primary will likely be held on 2/5, but "the date could be moved earlier" (Davenport, AP, 10/10).

Just in time for the whispering tour: Simon and Schuster announced yesterday that it'll publish a 10th anniversary version of It Takes A Village in December. Sen. Hillary Clinton wrote a new introduction. From the news release: "There are currently 700,000 copies of the book in print. In it, Senator Clinton chronicles her 30-year journey -- to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring, resilient adults."

Sen. John McCain's PAC rolled out more legislative endorsements in AL: They are: Reps "Cam Ward (Bibb and Shelby Counties), Warren Beck (Geneva and Houston Counties), Greg Canfield (Jefferson and Shelby County), Spencer Collier (Mobile County), Randy Davis (Baldwin and Mobile Counties), Mac Gipson (Autauga and Elmore Counties), Lynn Greer (Lauderdale County), Todd Greeson (DeKalb County), Mike Hill (Shelby County), Bobby Humphryes (Jefferson County), Jim McClendon (Shelby and St. Clair Counties), Albert Morton (Jeffersron), Jeremy Oden (Blount, Cullman and Morgan Counties), Allen Treadaway (Jefferson County), Jack Williams (Jefferson County), Nick Williams (Choctaw, Clarke and Washington Counties), Randy Wood (Calhoun and St. Clair Counties) and Mary Sue McClurken (Jefferson and Shelby Counties).

Nancy French, co-proprietor of Evangelicals for Mitt, has a new book out.

The power of fear: Ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani "made a late entrance" at the campaign event for IL-08 hopeful Dave McSweeny (R), "who had been in the middle of a mini-speech about abortion." Just as McSweeney said, "I am pro-life; I have been clear on that since the beginning," he "spotted" Giuliani "walking through the doors and immediately switched tack." McSweeney: "Remember on Sept. 11th, nineteen terrorists killed 3,000 Americans.”