Bad hair day

Well, now we know how psephologists across the country will be spending the next few days: digesting the momentous news that Barack Obama has sewn up the crucial "wig-wearing murder suspect" demographic. That's right, America -- Phil Spector endorses Obama! Meanwhile, one imagines the campaign will have slightly mixed feelings, also, about this endorsement from the rapper Ludacris, in which he is very unpleasant about Hillary Clinton, calls George Bush "mentally handicapped", proposes himself as Obama's vice-president, and theorises that because Obama likes his music, that means he'd get a "special pardon" if he ever finds himself "in the slammer".