Slog - Comments on Do We Have a Winner? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner After weeks of speculation and days of intense rumors, the answer to who Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would name as his running mate may have come down to a bumper sticker printed in Lenexa. KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported that the company, which specializes in political literature, has been printing Obama-Bayh material. That's Bayh as in U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana. Word leaked out about the material as it was being printed up by Gill Studios of Lenexa.... Gill Studios would not confirm information about the material. They would not deny it either. More here.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:28:48 -0800 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:18:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by M Um... what's your source?

]]> M http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111856 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111856 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:33:38 -0800 Comment by SP Sounds like a tropical destination.

]]> SP http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111858 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111858 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:33:52 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways IT'S ME!!!! I'M THE HOT TIPPER!!

I'M A WINNER!!!

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111863 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111863 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:37:38 -0800 Comment by el ganador no, NBC debunked. It's not a hoax, it's speculators trying to be ahead of the jump for Denver.

]]> el ganador http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111867 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111867 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:39:28 -0800 Comment by blaire with an e And its too ugly to be real

]]> blaire with an e http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111872 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111872 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:42:24 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Cooney Terrible design! Can't be real. Everything from the lettering spacing to lack of Obama logog raise suspicions.

]]> Lloyd Cooney http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111889 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111889 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:49:47 -0800 Comment by w7ngman it is believed that he could help the Obama ticket by delivering a key battleground state

Arg. Says five thirty eight:

both major parties rarely have nominated VP candidates as a strategic electoral vote collector, and to the extent they have set about deliberately trying to add a state with a VP pick it has almost never worked


]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111896 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111896 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:56:28 -0800 Comment by Jennifer in Chicago Oh man, I hope that's true.

]]> Jennifer in Chicago http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111909 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111909 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:01:33 -0800 Comment by patrick

zzzzz

]]> patrick http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111917 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111917 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:03:29 -0800 Comment by elenchos The pronunciation of "Bayh" always trips me up. So for that reason, I'd rather it wasn't him.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111919 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111919 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:04:44 -0800 Comment by Whitworth Fag Bayh? Two "foreign" sounding last names? Game over for the Democrats, sorry but game over.

]]> Whitworth Fag http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111922 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111922 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:06:49 -0800 Comment by bunk From the AP story:
"Officials said the Obama campaign had taken the trouble to print material bearing the names of several potential ticketmates — thereby minimizing the significance of a report that a printing company in Kansas was churning out signs bearing Bayh's name."

]]> bunk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111924 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111924 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:07:16 -0800 Comment by rain Seems unlikely. All they have to do is print up a few to get on the news. Also, as others have mentioned, it's not even close to the current Obama designs. No "O" with graphical elements, wrong font (especially bad on the '08), wrong colors, missing the web site address, O in Obama should be larger than the other letters, etc.

To compare, here's one of the current Obama-only bumper stickers.

]]> rain http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111925 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1111925 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:07:37 -0800 Comment by raindrop @5 & @6: Correct. It's not the font, logo, or design that the Obama campaign would use. This one of the red herrings we're all chasing.

]]> raindrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1112106 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/do_we_have_a_winner#c1112106 2008 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:18:14 -0800