So, what are the McCains hiding? Cindy McCain was asked about releasing her tax returns, on the Today show, and reiterated that she would never release them -- ever -- even if she becomes First Lady:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vZi6...

We're All Hacks Atrios is right

It's important to remember that none of us are above the fray, that we all have hackish tendencies to suppress information which doesn't fit our worldview and privilege information that does. We're more likely to excuse behavior from people we like and exaggerate the ills of people we don't like. I try to fight hackish tendencies especially during this intra-Dem battle, but I don't claim to have superhuman Nonhack powers.

For the record, I make no effort to be above the fray nor any pretense of being fair or balanced.  I'm not only a member of the Hack Club for Men, I'm the president.  It's good to know your own filters....

More hackery below.

Obama Romps in NC; Hillary Squeaks By in Indiana  The two primaries ended as many polls predicted: with Clinton winning Indiana and Obama winning North Carolina. But Obama won with a double digit lead, while Clinton eked out a very narrow victory. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/20...

Gas tax pandering didn't work, the arithmetic is even more stacked against her than ever, the cable talking heads have almost unanimously declared her dead, Tim Russert says she's cancelled her morning TV appearances, and speculation is rife that she might finally drop out. Maybe the game changed tonight after all.

It's been pretty clear for over a month that Hillary's only chance to win was to hope that Obama got hit by a meteor or something. In the end, though, he got hit by several meteors and it still didn't knock him out. Short of Obama literally keeling over from a stroke, I'm not sure what Hillary has left to hope for. Maybe she's finally figured that out.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/arc...

More of this, and anything else I can find, below.

AdamB has the scoop:

How harmful was the Supreme Court's decision last week to allow Indiana to implement burdensome photo ID requirements for its voters?

This harmful, stupid and ridiculous:

About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.

Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow sisters at Saint Mary's Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that they would need such an ID to vote.

The nuns, all in their 80s or 90s, didn't get one but came to the precinct anyway.

"One came down this morning, and she was 98, and she said, 'I don't want to go do that,'" Sister McGuire said. Some showed up with outdated passports. None of them drives.

They weren't given provisional ballots because it would be impossible to get them to a motor vehicle branch and back in the 10-day time frame allotted by the law, Sister McGuire said. "You have to remember that some of these ladies don't walk well. They're in wheelchairs or on walkers or electric carts."

I say Thank God somebody stopped those elderly, disabled nuns from voting. Give a sister the vote without photo ID, and the next thing you know, they're out on the streets advocating for homeless lepers, closing torture training centers, even getting rid of nuclear weapons. I mean, what's next? Teaching chastity, poverty and good grammar in our schools?

Atrios: "This election is going to be much much stupider than the last time. Last time much of the stupid was at least nominally about serious issues, this time it's just all about the stupid."

Tons of stupidity below.

[editor's note, by PoliSigh] Promoted by me.

Wednesday's dose of news follows below.

Q.  How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A.  Three.  Two to hold the giraffe in the bathtub while the third pours in the multi-colored hand tools.

Just sayin'.....

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19. MIKE PENCE
Congressman

 
A lawyer and former talk radio host who was elected to Congress in 2000, he has described himself as "a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order" and called for a "return to the values" of the 1994 Republican Revolution. Just 47, and youthful despite his white hair, a future presidential bid is a near certainty for this articulate, forceful Indiana congressman regarded on both sides of the aisle as a rising star.

Chair of the Republican Study Committee, a conservative congressional caucus, Pence is a campaigner for small government, low taxes and the outlawing of abortion. But he departed from the Republican Right orthodoxy over immigration, introducing a compromise bill that was an imaginative attempt to split the difference between George W. Bush and congressional Republicans.

Mike Pence is right between Glenn Beck and Ed Gillespie on the list- higher than GWB & Roger Ailes, and the only current House Member other than Ron Paul (96).