From the jock world…

Greg Oden, the former Ohio State behemoth and #1 overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft, is coming out as an Obama supporter.
Today I got a phone call from Senator Barack Obama. I was so nervous two days ago when I knew it was gonna happen and wanted to make sure he knew I had [...]

Musicians sing praises of Barack, Hillary; McCain’s musical supporter? Dee Snider

An interesting look at the celebrity singers who are singing the praises of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. From CNN reporter Josh Levs.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/03/30/levs.candidates.music.cnn

Girl’s name! Donate to Barack!

J.D.’s an Obama supporter. Scrubs star Zach Braff is one of the celebrities that has donated to Obama, according to this L.A. Times blog.
Obama raised $1.69 million in the Lone Star State to Clinton’s $1.46 million.
Obama continues to attract Hollywood money: Geena Davis gave him $4,600. Also giving him $2,300 checks in February were Dustin [...]

GOP Senator Al Coleman calls opponent Franken ‘disease’

Piggy-backing on Mike’s previous post…
He’s already lost his Senate seat to a celebrity once, (Jesse “the Body” Ventura) and Minnesota Republican Senator Al Coleman does not want history to repeat with former SNL writer and radio host Al Franken.
CNN.com reports
But in preparing for his latest fight, Coleman has tried to turn the spotlight back on [...]

Clinton’s kin: Alanis, Angelina, Madonna and, um, Celine

Now this is interesting. According to the Canadian Press, Obama is a distant relative of Brad Pitt, while Hillary Clinton is a distant relative of Alanis Morissette, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Celine Dion.
Researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society found some remarkable family connections for the three presidential candidates – Democratic rivals Obama and [...]

Thompson Heads Back to Hollywood…

Former Republican front-runner (yes, he was the front-runner for a week or two in the fall) and sometime-actor Fred Thompson is looking for a comeback…not in the political arena, but in Hollywood.
 After ending his bizarre campaign for President, Thompson took a (well-deserved?)break. And now we’re hearing from multiple reports– including Reuters and CNN, Thompson has [...]

A ton of new endorsements–including the Quaker Oats guy!

Wilford Brimley, the Walker: Texas Ranger actor and famous Quaker Oats pitchman, is the newest celebrity to go for McCain, according to this handy-dandy Washington Post article.
Other celebs they out for their respective candidates? Larry David, Leonard Nimoy, Jay-Z and Russell Simmons for Obama; Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, and (hey, here’s a 180) 50 [...]

Iraq? Blah. Barack and Oprah? Oh yeah!

More people could answer questions about Oprah Winfrey’s support of Barack Obama than could about the war in Iraq, according to a Pew Research group study.
The survey, conducted for the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press from Feb. 28 through March 2, found that at that point, the largest slice of Americans [...]

They can be heroes, just for one day…

More young, TV-star celebrities out hitting the campaign trail for Obama. Dule Hill (the former star of The West Wing and current star of Psych) and Zachary Quinto (evil dude from Heroes, computer technician on the Stephen Saunders season of 24, Spock in the new Star Trek movie) were out in Pennsylvania for the senator [...]

YouTube alert!

The enterprising staff of the Chicago Sun-Times have compiled this display of the various YouTube-based Obama-supporting videos.
Quite interesting, particularly the Latino one…