Have you noticed how one of the Democrats' candidates seems to have a sense of humor, and the other doesn't?

Obama pics, Saturday night in St. Louis

Obama Rally, Edward Jones Dome, St Louis MO (02-02-2008)

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For the record "Hyde Park" is not a town, it's a neighborhood of Chicago.  We've already got something like 17,000 real suburbs, let's not be making any more up, 'kay Time?

In all fairness, Hillary has a great sense of humor. It's kinda hard to remember that, though, especially when her emotional range hovers between "ticked off" and "pissed off."

I bet politicians hear the joke question, "so, who did you vote for?" every single time there is an election in which they are a candidate.  I'm glad Obama took it with good humor.

I find Obama a more likable candidate too and strongly support him, but give Hillary her props. I thought it was pretty funny in the New Hampshire debate after deadpanning about how "that hurts my feelings", she then batter her eyes and sighed, "but I'll TRY to go on". I've heard she's funny in person and I've seen enough examples of it publicly to assume she's got a pretty good sense of humor.

Just trying to be fair.

Me too! (but, really, it wasn't close.)

huntlib: Really?  Do you have any links?  I'd love to be convinced.  That sounds sarcastic, but it's not.  There's nothing better than discovering a sense of humor in somebody you had been convinced is unfunny.

Huntlib- agree she has a great sense of humor and used to show it off. Of course, staying married to BIll one pretty much HAS to have a sense of humor and generosity of spirit.

I honestly think she'd have this locked up already if she had fired her campaign staff (and, perhaps, Bill).

But can he come up with gems like "turd blossom"?

adaglas, anyway, the neighborhood is really Kenwood.

Nice pics Aaron B.

I've heard she can be funny as well.  I just think she is terrified to show it.  George Packer's article on her kind of shows this.

Scattered reports of voting problems in Super Duper Tuesday states continued, including one incident in Chicago that was personally monitored by Barack Obama supporter Oprah Winfrey. There was voting trouble in the now-hotly contested state of California

As former U of C president's George Beadle's wife Muriel once said of Hyde Park, a lovely mixed community "where white people and black people link arm and arm against the poor."

Thus has it ever been, thus shall it ever be. And it actually was a separate town until incorporated into Chicago around 1880 or '90 or so. Hyde Park types have been ticked off about that ever since.

I'm gonna disagree with most here - Hillary actually has a nice sarcastic streak in her. She can be funny. In fact - in a country where popular male comedians outnumber popular female comedians like 5-1, Hillary performs pretty well.

Obama is also a pretty funny guy though. Personally, I thought the best moment of that Los Angeles debate was when he zinged Mitt Romney about wasting all of his personal fortune.

At my polling place this morning in Chicago, two lady judges got into a fist fight over procedures, with one going to the hospital and the other charged with battery.  Elsewhere in Chicago, 20 ballots were cast blank after judges told voters that the stylus used for electronic voting would function as a pen with invisible ink and could be used to mark the more commonly used paper ballots (not true).  Many feel stupid, but the voters have been called back to correct the problem.  I'm about to vote for my second time today, and get another donut.

Other thoughts:

Obama's team is playing the expectations game well, I think.  If he ties, he wins.  If he wins small, he wins big.

Illinois is missing from TNR's primary primer (as is Massachusetts!), even though Illinois allocates the third largest number of delegates today, behind only California and New York.  Recent polls here have Obama leading Clinton 2-1, bigger than Clinton's New York advantage.

Today we vote for judges.  (Republicans don't typically field any candidates in county races, so the primary election determines all county offices, such as, this time around, State's Attorney and Recorder of Deeds as well as judges.)  And once again I ask, "Why do we vote for judges"?

My ballot has 26 races, 20 contested (including judges).  Do we get to vote for too much in this country?  I do my research, but something tells me that that guy over there didn't.  Then again, I think my research turned out to pretty well coincide with the old rule, vote for the Irish guy, or girl.

I'm once again impressed with the design of all of the official signs and ballots and documents used.  No crappy butterfly ballots and scrunched all-caps print in Cook County anymore.  Everything is easy to read and understand and downright pleasing to the eye.  Voting design has finally made the move everything else did in the 50s and 60s -- from municipal baroque to user-friendly Helvetica (think signs at airports or public transit systems or every sign in Europe).  It's a shame that it took this long.  Design in voting is actually one area where design really matters!  (See Florida.)