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The courts in California, which are more like the courts of Caligula, recently ruled that gays can marry, thus launching the state’s first wave of gay marriages that did not involve Liza Minnelli. While this is great news for California’s leather chaps business, it is a big slap in the face for the voters who will probably overturn this ruling in November.

The Democratic Leadership Council’s blog makes the case against the electoral college:

FiveThirtyEight does the electoral math to determine whether currently polling indicates John McCain should write off the state of Pennsylvania:

A possible scenario in the Presidential contest as presented by Politico:

FiveThirtyEight defines a “must-win” state in the Presidential election:

The FiveThirtyEight blog does the math and reveals the relationship between the popular vote and the electoral college:

OK, so I'll admit I'm in a foul mood today, and it goes back to the Roshomon-esque experience of seeing uncritical praise for Hillary's speech here last night. That speech made me want to run my fist through the wall.

5 months (and nearly 500 president-related posts later) after the mostly black voters in Iowa trudged through the snow covered farms to go out and vote for Barack Obama, there is a light at the end of the tunnel for the Democratic civil war known as the primary.

One of the questions asked most often this weekend was "what is going on at the rules and bylaws committee?" I even got asked the question by a cab driver from (I believe from the Caribbean) who saw me carrying a YDA poster. Despite the sense of suspense that the media wanted to portray, there really weren't any major surprises.