Wonder twin powers, activate– form of a triangulate. Today Senator Chris Dodd has officially jumped on the Obama bandwagon. He’s endorsed Obama for president. Lefty nutty meggers will rejoice. It’s a funny thing though, because upon entering the senate way back in 2005, Barack Obama was Senator Joe Lieberman’s protege. Along with it of course all the DLC stuff, speaking at the Council of Foreign Relations etc. In other words things that make usually make national Democrats palatable to the rest of the country. Politics sure does make for odd befellows. Like the time that Lieberman had to mediate the battle of the bi-partisan in the Senate.

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Two things about this youtube clip. One is that Charlie Brooker is brilliantly profane. If you have no admiration for the Brit sense of sarcasm, you might want to skip this. The second, is after laughing myself silly, I immediately thought, these are the twits that think Barack Obama should be president. 

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Local Democrats and Republicans will be congregating at separate locations for primary night results. The suspense is likely not there on the Republican side with Giuliani dropping out, McCain looks good to repeat his 2000 win. On the Democratic side, it could be Hillary or Obama, depending on which poll you might want to believe. Either way, campaign flunkies will be be in gear to beer.

Republicans will be at the Norwalk Inn after the polls close at 8 pm.

Democrats will be at the Cookhouse after the polls close at 8 pm.

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This is news? From the Courant:

Greenwich election officials are having a problem for the upcoming presidential primary - not enough poll workers.

The town’s two registrars of voters say there’s a shortage of people to greet voters, read ballots and check IDs for the Feb. 5 primary.

GOP Registrar Veronica Baron Musca says moving up the presidential primary by a month has created a hardship for her office, which relies on many elderly residents to work the polls.

She says all of her people are in Florida for the winter as usual.

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Most media is suggesting that Obama and Huckabee won something in Iowa. I’m not sure what was won, Iowa is perhaps the biggest waste of political energy since the Internet. I’d maybe go as far as saying the television, but really, when you look at modern presidential campaigns, the way in which to communicate to mass amounts of voters is all Internet these days. The real news coming out of Iowa was that the participation in the caucusses for the Democrats at least, was double what it was in 2004. That is the front page story coming out of Iowa because it might portend for the olden days of yore when everyone was an American when Republicans were promising a chicken in the pot and a car in every driveway while the nation was responding to a Democrat in every household. A roiling economy and disastrous foreign policy will do that to the electorate even these days.

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Do ya think any of the caucus goers will be grooving to tunes as they bring an end to the Iowa mania? No, I think not. But if they were, this would be playing:

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The AP is reporting the ballot order for the presidential primary in Connecticut.

For the Republican ballot:

1) Rudolph Giuliani

2) Fred Thompson

3) Mitt Romney

4) John McCain

5) Duncan Hunter

6) Ron Paul

7) Mike Huckabee

Alan Keyes

9) Uncommitted

For the Democratic Ballot:

1) Barack Obama

2) Dennis Kucinich

3) Mike Gravel

4) Bill Richardson

5) Chris Dodd

6) Joe Biden

7) John Edwards

Hillary Clinton

9) Uncommitted

Primary voting details you should know about:

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Senator Lieberman endorses Senator McCain for president. In other news, the sun rises in the east.

Sen. John McCain, trying to keep momentum in this state’s critical Republican primary race, brought in something unusual on Monday — an endorsement from the other party’s former vice presidential nominee.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, Democrat Al Gore’s running mate in 2000, said he had intended to wait until after the primaries to make a choice for the 2008 presidential race. But McCain asked for his support and no Democrat did.

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Yesterday it was reported on political wire that Senator Dodd failed to file for ballot access in New York.

Sen. Christopher Dodd, trailing badly in the polls for the Democratic presidential nomination, failed to file to appear on the ballot in New York. This seems an odd choice for the senator from neighboring Connecticut where his profile is undoubtedly higher than elsewhere in the nation. The New York Democratic party requires 5,000 signatures to appear on the ballot. According to Ballot Access News, just six candidates met that requirement: Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Biden, Richardson, and Kucinich.

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I have to admit when I first heard about this I just thought, wow that’s cool real live presidential candidates are coming to Connecticut for a debate. Alas, as I soon learned, it was actually going to be proxies instead. But still, an interesting format all the same. Having watched various televised debates, heavily scripted as they are, this would be a more free flowing debate style. One of the proxies, representing the Obama campaign is Norwalk’s Lex Paulson. Lex serves as the 4th CD chair of the Barack Obama campaign. So quite the Norwalk connection tonight. I’m not sure of Republicans in Connecticut are going to do something like this, but assume that its one of those regular presidential campaign.

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