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- As Kate reported earlier, Obama today launched a 50-state voter registration drive in a joint fund raising partnership with the DNC. It’ll be interesting to see if he really does push hard in all 50 states or if that’s window dressing. So far though, his campaign is insisting they mean it.
- The DNC is also working with the Clinton campaign.
- Noam Scheiber explains why Indiana’s status as a red state helps Obama.
- I’m sure you were all dying to know that the three guys in Abercrombie & Fitch shirts behind Obama when he gave his concession speech on Tuesday were not deliberately placed there.
- Yargh!!! Did two reasonable, intelligent people really write an article with the thesis that, if Obama wins Indiana by even one point he’ll have successfully demonstrated an ability to win working-class white voters, but, if he loses by even one point, he’ll have permanently damaged his campaign? Really? We all know roughly what the outcome will be -- Clinton or Obama will win in the low single digits and delegates will be roughly split. The idea that a few thousand votes are the best test of who better appeals to a whole demographic is preposterous. Sure, who wins will affect perceptions, but that’s no reason to pretend it actually tells us anything about the relative strengths of the candidates.
- Obama is now on the air in every remaining state and Puerto Rico.
- Switching sides when you’re a superdelegate is one thing, but this guy raised $500,000 for Clinton before joining Obama’s finance team. I bet he feels dumb.
- Somehow, the North Carolina GOP is withstanding the massive moral and political pressure John McCain is bringing to bear on them to take down their controversial anti-Obama ad. If I didn’t know better, I’d think he wasn’t trying. (Note that this means he’s either completely without power in his own party or a liar.)
--Sam Boyd
