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- Of course, momentum isn't all it's cracked up to be these days. Still, Obama seems to be gaining in the polls and it seems like the result tomorrow will be fairly close. More interestingly, the calendar after tomorrow is more favorable to him both because he'll have much more time to spend in each state (far fewer states will be voting each week) and because the demographics of the states before March 4 are fairly amenable to him. If he can win Texas and Ohio then he can win anywhere. I also suspect the friendliness of the last week will evaporate fairly quickly if Obama continues to gain ground.
- Time has a great piece on the delegate race.
- Matt Yglesias notes that the spate of negative campaigning before South Carolina didn't have any lasting impact in favorability numbers.
- The Prospect's own Ann Friedman points out at her other gig that the media's aproach to race and gender is kinda... cartoonish.
- I wouldn't have expected a poet to produce one of the clearest summaries of Obama's visceral appeal I've seen yet. Then again, it sorta makes sense.
- On the Republican side there's not much to say except that you shouldn't count Romney out. Some polls show him winning California (the CA GOP does have a long and honorable tradition of picking the less electable candidate in a primary) which would, in and of itself, allow him to continue to compete. Furthermore, Huckabee will likely fade away in future votes and much of his support could go to Romney. Meaning of course, we're probably stuck with McCain.
- Finally, a bizarre mix of celebrities made an incredibly powerful song setting an Obama speech to music. Another group of not famous people has an almost equally powerful song riffing on his "fired up, ready to go" slogan. Also, Scarlett Johansson does a robobcall for Obama. Only in LA.
--Sam Boyd
