MONEY ACTS. Now that we know the individual contributors to each candidate, we can figure out who's got the coolest celebrities. For all her talk of values and cultural deterioration, for instance, Hillary Clinton certainly has the edgiest contributors, including Candice Bergen, Hugh Hefner, and Jerry Springer. She's managed to unite Sex and the City, Playboy, and transvestites who slept with your mother and are your uncle! Barack Obama seems to have drawn a bit more from the A-list, boasting contributions from Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, and Ben Stiller. John Edwards, for his part, certainly has the coolest contributors, with both Larry David and Seth Green hooking him up. And Barry Manilow, oddly, is all over the place. Whoops: Candice Bergen was Murphy Brown. Candice Bushnell wrote Sex and the City. My bad. On the bright side, Murphy Brown was a single mother, so my glib and superficial point remains! --Ezra Klein
