Jeff, man I was enjoying a quiet day at the office, but you had to go ahead and do it didn't you? First you blog about Rosa Clemente getting the nod as the Green Party VP and when I still wouldn't bite, you sent me this WSJ article about Obama's voter registration efforts. Hells yeah it's "super-interesting." But you and I always ask, what does any of this mean?

After Obama excommunicated Wesley Clark from his campaign, which he was never working with to begin with, I half-expected Clark and McKinney to join forces. It would have been like one of those wrestling events where a wrestler unexpected changes teams and stirs half the auditorium into a frenzy while leaving the other half in disbelief. Even without this imagined WWE scenario a McKinney/CLemente ticket makes the Green Party more interesting than it was a week ago. One of the knocks against the greens is that they were too white. McKinney and Clemente not only change this perception in terms of phenotype, but set the stage for altering party politics in this country for years to come. As the WSJ article contends African Americans have voted democrat at a 90% rate, a statistic that McKinney and Clemente are unlikely to alter during this election. What they can do however is make cities and districts around the country, especially in states like California, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania battle-ground states in upcoming elections in ways that the democrats and republicans are not normally accustomed. If Obama generates as high a voter turn out as some are predicting, it is virtually impossible for the democrats and republicans to retain all of these enthusiastic new voters. We have already seen how the Ron Paul phenomena has siphoned some youthful voters away from McCain and the republicans, a similar process can occur if the Green Party can present itself as a more multi-racial coalition. It's not so much the Obama's of the world who have to worry, but more so patronage peddlers like Kwame Kilpatrick.

My two cents....

PS, you were right about the Billy Beane analogy.

PPS Baron Davis to the clippers, ouch.