Applying rigorous baseball analysis methodologies to politics ... a project by Nate Silver of Baseball Prospectus. Political sabermetrics, basically.

Users on reddit pitched in to purchase $4,000 worth of flowers for Helen Thomas, honoring her commitment to being a journalist. Nice gesture.

Quoted: Now let's look more closely at Obama. I was blown away as I started going through his record. I've already mentioned his bills on health care and energy. In addition he had introduced bills on Iran, voting, veterans, global warming, campaign finance and lobbyists, Blackwater, global poverty, nuclear proliferation, and education.

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Brilliant!

Quoted: Will.i.am totally stole this idea from us, we've been thinking for a long time that earnest people reacting to a candidate is the future of music video. By ...

Obama on algorithms ... gotta be the first time any political candidate has used the term "bubble sort", EVER.

Quoted: The proceedings at Google are not unremittingly serious affairs. Mr. Schmidt asked Senator McCain, “How do you determine good ways of sorting one million 32-bit integers in two megabytes of RAM?” Immediately signaling that the question was asked in jest, Mr. Schmidt moved on. Six months later, Senator Obama faced the same question, but his staff had prepared him. When he replied in fluent tech-speak (“A bubble sort is the wrong way to go”), the quip brought down the house.

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Spell "electability" in 5 letters: O-B-A-M-A.

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Clinton tonight, Obama Friday.

If you're in WA, and you want to impact the Democratic presidential selection, your primary vote does NOTHING. You need to vote in the caucuses _this_ Saturday at 1:00 pm. No delegates will be allocated based on primary results.