Inbox, Outbox, 3/29

How much the '08 will raise doesn't interest us nearly as much as their line item disbursements. Where they're spending their money geographically, how much senior strategists are getting paid, which "endorsers" get consulting contracts, how much direct mail prospecting has cost and what the rate of return was... Dan Hoover is already starting to notice. BTW: Why was Alex Castellanos, who is a top strategist for Mitt Romney, having dinner with Fred Thompson?

If Barack Obama refuses to take campaign contributions from lobbyists but allows lobbyists to hit up their wives, husbands and families for contributions, and is able to raise more than $200K at a tony law and lobby firm in DC, can he cleanly claim to have taken a real symbolic step in ridding his campaign of the pernicious influence of those scandalous l-worders?

We might have wanted to hear what CBN Newsers were talking about during last night's Radio Television Correspondents Association dinner. Guests included Michelle Malkin and David Vitter. Wonder if immigration and/or Rudy came up.

A list of moneymen that'd make Chris Cillizza cry.

And our Capitol Fax Blog's Rich Miller tells us that the IL House has voted to move its primary to 2/5. [MARC AMBINDER]