doing my bit for political cluefulness

Democracy for America, which used to be the Dean campaign but is broadening its scope, informed me this morning that Barack Obama's opponent in the Senate race (Alan Keyes) has asserted that Jesus Christ would not vote for Obama, because of his position on abortion.

I confirmed this information, and also learned that Obama has said he doesn't just want to beat Keyes, he wants to spank him. I'm not unsympathetic to the sentiment, though mostly I'm contemplating what Jesus Christ would do. I'm not convinced he would vote for a major party. In fact, given that his kingdom is not of this world, I'm not entirely convinced he would vote at all; my local polling place is in a church basement, and I can almost see Christ throwing all the little cubicles onto the sidewalk, in a reworking of the money-changers-in-the-temple episode, before inviting the various kids who come to the church for food and are probably displaced by all this voting stuff to come in out of the cold.

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The manifolds prelim this morning went pretty well, just in case anyone's keeping score besides me.