Seis de mayo is here!  Voting booths open in less than six hours in Indiana, where 72 delegates are up for grabs, and North Carolina, which will offer up 115.  (Seems voters in both states are flattered by the national attention—this being the first competitive primary in a generation.)

Thus ends a week and a half of nasty back-and-forthing.  Clinton and Obama swapped negative ads on guns and gas taxes, while competing for blue-collar bona fides (I award the victory to Clinton, for knocking back beer after cheap beer with a convincingly genuine smile).  Now let's see if she's rewarded in votes…

Rumors on the veepstakes...gossip has it that the frontrunner for McCain's running mate is Louisiana Governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, who is sharp, photogenic, reeeaally young, and able to neutralize the Democrats' we're-not-balding-white-men appeal.  Go McCain-Jindal!