The Kilgore campaign just sent an interesting email to reporters:

There will be changes to Jerry Kilgore’s Monday schedule.

For further information, you must contact the White House Office of Media Affairs at…

It looks like President Bush will be campaigning for Jerry Kilgore after all Monday. With the chattering class assuming that a Kilgore loss is a Bush loss and that Bush is dragging down local Republican races, this is a bold move by the White House. Before this change, the White House and the Kilgore campaign could plausibly argue that the two men’s fates were separate. If Bush makes a large show of support for Kilgore Monday, and there’s every indication he will, that argument will become much, much more difficult to make.

UPDATE: Mike Shear had this hours ago…