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- Just in time for the LR's deadline, Obama releases a great, clear, and convincing statement explaining his relationship with his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Even better, it looks like all three campaigns are going to eschew your-pastor-is-a-nutjob arguments, which is refreshing.
- The Obama campaign is trying to register thousands of Republicans and Independents as Democrats in Pennsylvania so they can vote in the April 22 primary.
- The Clinton strategy of attracting superdelegates hasn't been what you'd call successful. Obama has gotten 53 endorsements since Feb 5 to Clinton's 12.
- Chris Cizzilla has a good preview of the states most likely to be competitive in the general election.
- Why has Michigan been so much more successful than Florida in planning a re-vote? Democrats worked together and cooperated.
- Meanwhile Florida Senator Bill Nelson is proposing that the Florida delegation be seated as is, but have it's voting power cut in half (giving Clinton 19 extra delegates instead of 38).
- A lot has been made of Obama's use of his pastor's phrase "the audacity of hope," but Ben Smith points out that the sermon that has that title doesn't actually have much relation to Obama's rhetoric.
- John McCain explains that if you vote against him because of increasing violence in Iraq, the terrorists win.
- Obama and Clinton met yesterday on the Senate floor and apparently discussed the tone of the campaign.
- GOP web guru Patrick Ruffini explains how the McCain campaign is failing to use the internet as fully as it could. It's a must read for anyone interested in why the web has become so central to modern presidential campaigns. Democrats, too, would do well to listen to some of his suggestions.
- A prominent conservative blogger thinks Michelle Obama is a "Marxist harpy." It's the Hillary Clintonization of Michelle Obama, and it's incredibly nasty. (To be clear, what I mean is that the negative stereotypes associated with both women are sexist and unfair.)
- Finally, it's been a while since we had a silly video, so here's one a friend of mine made mashing up Elliott Spitzer and Revolution #9 by the Beatles. It's oddly appropriate.
--Sam Boyd
