In a spooky replay of real-life, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is running against not Hillary Clinton but former president Bill Clinton - in the "best spoken word album" category of the Grammy awards, announced today.
Obama is nominated for his recording of The Audacity of Hope, the follow-up to his blockbuster Dreams of My Father, while Bill Clinton gets the nod for speaking his tome Giving, which is the sequel to his smash-hit presidency of the United States between 1993 and 2000.
We don't know who is in the lead for the award right now, but someone will probably put a poll out in the field shortly.
To make matters more complex, there are two other heavyweight political contenders in the running. One is Jimmy Carter, another former president, and Alan Alda, who won the Republican nomination for the presidency in the seventh series of the West Wing, when he played Senator Arnold Vinick.
The remaining candidate is a non-politician, the poet Maya Angelou, who does not appear to have run for the presidency in any form. She has however endorsed Hillary Clinton for the 2008 race.
According to Reuters, Jimmy Carter won the award in 2007, Obama won it in 2006, and Bill Clinton won it in 2005, while Hillary Clinton won it in 1997.
How will it affect the election? Not at all. In other news, Amy Winehouse announced she is entering the contest for the Republican nomination.
