Talk About Crooked

Did you see this?

I'm not sure what SOS Hosemann's intentions are, but I cannot grasp why he would put the most prominent senate race in decades, and in my lifetime, at the bottom of the ballot with the local Joe Shmoe. I can only assume it was an attempt to bury Musgrove's name recognition. Maybe he has another reason, but until he let's the MS electorate know why, I'll just stick with my assumption.

Peter Patrelli

Peter...as of yesterday...will be in attendance at the first debate in Oxford, MS.

Psst: Voters like it when your tie matches her dress...or suit

they can probably drink in Europe

June 6 staff conference made public on barackobama.com.  Obama thanks his Chicago staff, most of whom he's unsure if they're of drinking age, for helping build "the best political organization in America."

Department of Button Outreach or...not

Obama seems eager to reach out to fringe groups with his campaign button selection, while McCain seems determined to first shore up his ties with the more conservative wing of his party.  And, it looks like he still has a few St. Patty's Day buttons in stock if that's up your alley.

Snoop Dog's Politics

Snoop Dog rolls with the gangsta party.  For any phone surveys, this seems the perfect response.

Some staggering numbers just up @ Politico

Writes Jean Cummings....

If each of Obama’s donors gave him a modest $250, he’d have $375 million to spend during the two-month general election sprint. That’s $186 million a month, $47 million a week.

Obama has more than 1.5 million donors; McCain has a few hundred thousand. If just a million of Obama’s donors sent him the maximum donation, $2,300, he could raise $2.3 billion. 

He (McCain) reported a record month in April, raising $18 million, after sewing up his party’s nomination. In 2004, Democrat John F. Kerry raised $44 million in the month after he emerged his party’s presumptive nominee.

“All hands are going to be on deck,” said one longtime Democratic fundraiser. “A billion is spent on advertising at the Super Bowl. That’s one football game. This is worth every nickel we can put into it.”

it's about time

ABC: Clinton will drop out of the presidential race.



Gah. I thought this would never happen. literally. Let's hope the party doesn't hurt in the general election.

and of course the next thought: will she be obama's veep?

a thousand words.

i laugh out loud every time i see this.
i've yet to see an image of obama embracing the lame duck.

Music video of the millenium

It's lit up at night...who knew

Media Tycoon Murdoch on Obama

video c/o Ben Smith @ Politico

David Brooks does Dr. Doom

Some key passages from the Times op-ed column which is definitely worth the read...

On Obama...

Obama has spent the past several months rolling up his sleeves and furiously courting working-class votes. It doesn’t seem to be working. Ron Brownstein of the National Journal calculates that Obama did no better among those voters in a late state like Pennsylvania than he did for 26 out of 29 earlier primary states where he lost the working class.

There is something about his magic that resonates powerfully with the well-educated but doesn’t translate with the less-educated.

And McCain...

McCain’s problem is that his party is unfit to govern. As research from the Republican pollster David Winston has shown, any policy becomes less popular when people learn that Republicans are supporting it. If the G.O.P. sponsored the sunrise, voters would prefer gloom. Many Republicans are under the illusion that they are in trouble because they’ve betrayed their core principles. The sad truth is that if they’d been more conservative, they’d be even further behind.

At long last...

The front page of the French publication Liberation in January following Obama's win in Iowa. Nearly six months later...it appears to be wrapped up.