You forgot the biggest news of all...

MANCHESTER UNITED -- 2007-2008 PREMIERSHIP CHAMPIONS!!!

WOOT!!!

(Please excuse the all caps, but I'm a bit pleased with this development).

(Yawn.) Now tell me why anyone would give a shit.

The Reverend Wright thing might have helped Obama with the young evangelicals. After all, the storyline is that they are tired of the focus on guns, god and gays from the GOP, and probably have disagreed with their own minister from time to time.

But I'm not young, and I'm not an evangelical, so who knows? Besides, I've got to go put new outfits on the mannequins.

I can't help feel suspicious about evangelicals (as opposed to, as I think Dan suggested, Non Psychotic Followers Of Jesus) tilting toward the Democrats. It may say a lot about the GOP... specifically, the GOP is in disarray. Naturally, even the evangelicals want to be part of the winning team. But at what cost? To themselves? To the Democrats?

Good NYT story re electoral maps -- Love those cartagrams (showing size of states adjusted to reflect electoral college votes). Here's my take:

WA and OR: in the bag. Not really swing at all. NV NM CO: Obama can get, might need help with Latinos. Mn WI IA: Obama does well there. Fl: Obama way far behind McCain, situation critical. Interestingly HRC polls ahead of McCain there, even today as the presumptive Democratic loser.
OH: Obama behind, interestingly HRC polls solidly better etc. etc. Pa: Obama very close to McCain while HRC polls solidly better, etc. Va: Obama is way behind McCain. Don't count on it. Webb barely won. NH: Obama can win. The map doens't show some danger poitns for Obama like several polls showing Mass. is a toss up nor some opportunities for OBama like NC, MO.
So what's our candidate Obama to do?
His biggest decision between now and the election is choice of VP.
Biden: adds experience, gravitas, but shit Obama doesn't need foreign policy experience. That's the whole point of his campaign already. And Biden failed to get votes.

Dodd: ditto.

Richardson: ditto and ditto and despite being Latino failed totally to even get the Latino segment in the states he ran in.

Wesley Clark: eh. Didn't light any fires when he ran.

Stickland: helps in OH, adds a white guy.
Rendell: helps in PA adds a white guy.
Clinton: helps in OH PA NH FL NV NM MI and also AR WV MO (call 'em the bubba border states) best of all prevents her ambition from fucking with his program after he's elected. You want her in the SEnate holding up his programs, or harnessed to his success as VP?
Michelle and Barack can totally control her with the threat of not naming her as VP for that second term. That would leave her without any office in 2012 andher only option would be to run against an administration that is incumbent and successful and which she had just supported -- ie that would leave her nowhere. Pretty good threat, eh?

There are good arguments pro and con btw but as BHO said she's on any short list for VP.
Looking at the electoral map we need to not have problems in MA NJ we need to make FL competitive also OH PA need to just be fucking nailed down so we can have the big map expansion and sweep in 60 democratic senators, etc.

The Chelsea scum will prevail in the European Cup, though, preventing the Manchester scum from celebrating for too long.

I find Fulham's somehow staying up to be the real story today.

@7 -- You may have a point.

@6 -- You have a point...on your head (j/k...sort of)

Is #5 unPC's alter-ego?

@9 - Isn't it obvious? (and so clever!)

Yeah, it was sad seeing Fulham survive. But the real drama is still going on, in the Championship playoffs. I'd really like to see Bristol City and Hull City make it to the Prem -- neither has played top-flight football for decades (Hull never). I wouldn't mind seeing Crystal Palace back up, either. That was a mad free-for-all in the last month; much more entertaining than the rather ponderous Prem, where the same three teams win everything (until next year).

Jube, I saw Old Trafford last September, from the outside. The thing radiates evil, like the Death Star.

I'll be interested in seeing if Mönchengladbach's spell in the 2. Bundesliga did them any good. With the speed they came back up, it very well may have.

@11 -- There is a brick with my name on in Sir Matt Busby Way, fnarfy...I guess that technically makes me an actual PART of the Death Star (hopefully not that hot little hole they dumped the bombs down, though...)

MUFC is a mighty team (cue predictable Liverpool rant about # of European championships...), and I am so proud of them today. I will be even prouder of them on May 21! :-)

Woot!

#10, yeah it's obvious.

#5, it's odd that such a freethinking Clintron (er... Clinton supporter), formerly undeterred by the Obamatron echo chamber, would be so quick to accept Obama's victory, change their Slog handle, and completely shift their attention to the general election once "conventional wisdom" (ie the MSM) says Obama is the nominee.

Having gone through some rather obvious stages of denial and anger over Clinton's spectacular breakdown, I have to wonder if this new less-nonsensical personality of yours represents the acceptance stage? I guess you're trying to pimp Clinton for the VP spot, so I'd say it's more of a bargaining phase.

Maybe we can get together sometime and I can give you my stirring rendition of "who's that lyin' on the runway, who's that dyin' in the snow?"

Whistlin' past the cemetary. We're number one! Ooops! What went wrong? I just love a winner!

@4

According to the article at CNN, the "cost" may be abortion. Yikes. I don't want the evangelicals, can we send them back?

Let's ship the evangelicals back to Europe.

@17,

I'm taking the word of "some political analysts" with a grain of salt.

You'll forgive me if I feel less than charitable towards evangelical types who apparently just figured out there is more to politics than abortion and gay marriage.