Vice President Joe Biden “says he hasn’t decided whether to seek the presidency in 2016 — and when he does he’ll tell the incumbent about it first,” USA Today reports.

Said Biden: “If I decide to run, believe me, this’ll be the first guy I talk to. But that decision hasn’t been made for real, and there’s plenty of time.”

A new Public Policy Polling survey in Ohio finds Gov. John Kasich (R) in a dead heat with challenger Ed Fitzgerald (D), 44% to 44%.

Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden (D) will not run for re-election to a third term this year, instead setting his sights on the governor’s office in 2016, The Week reports.

Said Biden: “What started as a thought — a very persistent thought — has now become a course of action that I wish to pursue.”

The Glasgow Daily Times reports that a constituent asked Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) why he came out in support of the re-election of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

“Paul declined to answer the question publicly, saying he would speak with her in private and explain his reason for supporting the senior senator.”

A new Rasmussen poll in South Carolina finds Gov. Nikki Haley (R) way ahead of Vincent Sheheen (D) in her re-election race, 52% to 37%.

“I don’t have sizzle.”

— Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, quoted by ABC News, when asked if he’d consider running for president again.

A Smart Politics analysis finds that if Kathleen Sebelius (D) ran for and won Kansas’ U.S. Senate seat in 2014, she would become the first woman ever to serve as governor, cabinet head, and U.S. Senator and just the ninth person to serve in all three offices during the last 100+ years.

Wall Street Journal: “Republican leaders are telling the party’s House members that persistent criticism of the federal health-care law is the best path to victory this fall regardless of how the law’s implementation evolves ahead of the November elections.”

Wonk Wire: Where’s the Obamacare death spiral?

A new University of Massachusetts at Amherst poll in Massachusetts finds Martha Coakley (D) leading the Democratic race for governor with 39%, followed by Steve Grossman at 9%, Don Berwick at 3% and Juliette Kayyern at 3%.

A new Pan Atlantic SMS poll in Maine shows Gov. Paul LePage (R) leading his re-election race with 39%, followed by Michael Michaud (D) at 37% and Eliot Cutler (I) at 20%.

A new Survey USA poll in Florida finds Charlie Crist (D) leading Gov. Rick Scott (R) in the race for governor, 46% to 41%.

Geoffrey Skelley: “So far, 50 members of the 113th Congress have either left office or signaled their intentions to leave at the end of this cycle… Despite all that, the degree of turnover in the House this cycle is not unusually high. Over the last 40 years, an average of 70.4 members has exited the House for one reason or another each two-year cycle. That’s about one-sixth of the total House membership every cycle. At 50 exits so far, this Congress still has a ways to go in order to produce even an average level of turnover.”

Former Rep. Bob Beauprez (R-CO) “has made the GOP ballot for governor, but thousands of signatures he turned in were declared invalid by the secretary of state’s office,” the Denver Post reports.

“Considering the amount of money Beauprez spent collecting the signatures, failure to make the ballot likely would have resulted in plenty of embarrassment and a court challenge.”