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Over the weekend, Senator Evan Bayh suggested we measure the success of the candidates not by delegates earned, but by the electoral votes of the states they’ve won. In the spirit of Senator Bayh, I present you with five additional metrics that I pulled out of my ass. As you’ll see, Hillary Clinton is either winning or tied with Obama in every case.

I received an email today (copied after the jump), which considers the facts that Obama is “from the east,” “charismatic in nature,” has “proposed solutions,” and has “attract[ed] many supporters,” and concludes that he must be the Anti-Christ. Question: Does the target demographic for this email even exist? Is there anyone out there who (a) is dumb enough to believe it and (b) was previously planning on voting Obama?

McCain fans have put together a music video for their candidate that is so terrible it can only be the result of a conspiracy designed to embaress McCain. You be the judge.

Lawrence Lessig launched the Change Congress movement this week. Their goal? No more money from corporate political action committees and lobbyists. No more earmarks to fund pet projects in federal spending bills. Public financing for all congressional campaigns. And throughout it all, transparency. Watch the inspiring video.

Yesterday, the American Spectator published a “Special Report,” on Barack Obama’s relationship to Reverend Wright, which included gross factual omissions and none-too-subtle racist remarks. There’s much to make fun of in this piece, but I’d like to focus on one argument in particular: Barack Obama isn’t black enough. It might seem incongruous for […]

Representative Debbie Schultz, co-chair of the Democratic Party’s Red-to-Blue program, refuses to endorse three Democratic candidates in her own back yard. It’s not because they’re not qualified, she thinks they’re strong. It’s because she’s personal friends with the Republicans. Join the blogosphere in a campaign for her to endorse or resign.

Barack Obama’s historic speech on race and politics is hard to skim. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were an annotated version? Something like cliff notes? This post includes the full text of the speech, but for those of you who don’t have the time to read the full version, please enjoy my annotations. It’s my audacious hope that skimming the annotations will inspire some people to read the full version, who wouldn’t otherwise.

Actually, there was nothing subtle about the tea leaves. This post focuses in particular on Kennedy’s questions at oral argument, which, besides romanticizing cowboys, suggested an intent to overrule United States v. Miller. Yee hah!