A McCain- Rice ticket would beat a Clinton-Obama ticket - or an Obama-Clinton ticket in New York State, according to a new Marist Poll.

"Forty-nine percent of registered voters in New York State support a John McCain/Condoleezza Rice ticket compared with 46 percent who support Hillary Clinton as president and Barack Obama as vice president," the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion is reporting. "The Democrats don't fare any better in New York with Obama at the top of the ticket as president and Clinton as vice president."

Democratic activists in Myanmar are asking for international observers for that country's May 10 constitutional referendum, the New York Times is reporting. The activists say they're being physically attacked, a reminder of the brutal attacks by government troops last fall.

Helping you prep for your vote for president: In the American Prospect, Ezra Klein discusses a book that he says is a rarity in election-year books, a "useful intervention" into the debate on US foreign policy. The book is Matthew Yglesias' "Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats."

"Rather than simply re-litigating the argument over the Iraq War," writes Klein, "Yglesias situates the war, and the debate that led to the invasion, in the context of longer-running arguments about the proper direction of U.S. foreign policy. In particular, he laments the relative abandonment of the vision liberals have held dear since World War II -- that of a rules-based international order in which America sacrifices a certain amount of autonomy in order to gain a greater measure of legitimacy, and works mightily to create, preserve, and strengthen international institutions that let other countries do the same."