• Someone must have declared Wednesday web video day: Hillary says “caucusing is easy”; an Israeli humor site animates the race; and a little boy in Kenya is inspired by the name Obama to dream about a bigger future. That last one in particular is worth a watch, because it shows just how much power American ideas and actions — such as the ideals of justice popularized by the civil and women’s rights movements — can have around the world.

  • Mike Huckabee‘s shoe-string campaign is soliciting $1 donations — “a buck for Huck!” — i.e. e-mail addresses for list-building purposes. A solicitation letter to supporters points out that he’s broken the 20 percent barrier in Iowa despite having “spent $0 on television advertising.”
  • And Zephyr Teachout issues a challenge to political reporters.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.