I had started running this list over on my own blog, but Matt commented that he wouldn’t mind the content for Moodspins. After hammering out important contract details into the wee hours of the morning (he was trying to rip me off on the DVD royalties — he’s mean that way) we bring to you the new feature sweeping the nation: As If It Matters 2008.

The political playoff season is over. It’s been a long, nasty dirty fight, but it looks like the Democrats have finally made a decision as to who they are sending forward in this year’s political championship series.

It’s official: Ron Paul has ended his campaign for the Republican nomination for U.S. President. He will now work to get his message out through the newly-formed Campaign for Liberty.

Barack Obama is for all intents and purposes the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. NYTimes.com has the numbers as 56% to 39% with 9% reporting as of 10:52pm ET… and as reported earlier, he’s passed the delegate threshold needed to go up against Republican John McCain in November. UPDATE (6/5/08): Here are [...]

Hillary Clinton has won the South Dakota Primaries, with the NY Times having the totals as follows (updated 6/4/08 with 100% reporting): Hillary Clinton: 54,179 votes, 55.3%, 8 delegates won Barack Obama: 43,726 votes, 44.7%, 7 delegates won With the same % reporting, John McCain wins the GOP contest with 70.1% of the vote (Ron [...]

We’ll have an update once SD and MT’s results are in, but unless something extraordinary happens between now and the conventions, it’s as close to official as you can get: Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) are the two major party candidates in the race to be 44th President of the United States… [...]

According to the Associated Press, Illinois Senator Barack Obama “effectively clinched” the Democratic Presidential nomination today, based on a tally of pledged delegates, superdelegates and the minimum number of delegates he will add to his total today even if he loses both Montana and South Dakota Primaries. Here are the first few paragraphs of this [...]

Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rican Primaries (results at NYTimes.com, 263,120 (68.4%) to Barack Obama’s 121,458 (31.6%) with 55 pledged delegates up for grabs (to be proportionally allocated). The final two contests are Tuesday in Montana and South Dakota!

Michigan and Florida delegates will be seated with half-votes at the Democratic National Convention this summer. Of course, people are still unhappy. Duh. The Associated Press has the full story.

With the Libertarian Party’s choice of Sunday of former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr as its candidate for United States President, following is an updated list of “third party” candidates who have registered with the Federal Election Commission for this year’s election, in alphabetical order (credit: Wikipedia)…