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Matt Towery of InsiderAdvantage is convinced that operatives with the Obama presidential campaign helped scuttle Vernon Jones’ Senate bid by sending out mailers that focused on Jones’ boasts that he voted twice for George W. Bush. The rumor has been picked up by Political Insider, Peach Pundit and other local blogs.

A certain Kenneth Walker, a Jones strategist, claims that he knows “for a fact…that there was a meeting in Sen. Harry Reid’s office with David Axelrod from Obama’s campaign, and there was an agreement Obama’s campaign would help Jim Martin with the direct mail linking Vernon and George Bush.”

That’s strange. We thought Vernon and Barrack were supposed to be tight.

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With an 8-point margin Saturday over Republican front-runner John McCain in the Louisiana GOP primary, Mike Huckabee has completed his sweep of the nation’s squirrel-eating states.

On Super Tuesday, Huckabee won in such squirrel-gobbling centers as West Virginia, Tennessee and of course Arkansas, where he served as governor. On Saturday, he also picked up a win in Kansas and possibly one in Washington. Neither of those states is known to be big on bushy-tail cuisine.

Huck first brought up his squirrel-preppin’ talents and squirrel-eatin’ ways as he campaigned in an MSNBC interview for the South Carolina primary. But South Carolinians, it turns out, are primarily into ‘possum.

It’s not clear whether Huck’s rodentia recipes contributed to his Super Tuesday victory in Georgia, where squirrel had gone out of fashion but appears to be making a comeback.

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Hey, y’all: Our colleagues over at the Crib Notes music blog are going to live-blog the Grammys Sunday night, starting at 8 p.m. My understanding is that if I put the words Amy Winehouse, Kanye West and Soulja Boy at this point in my post, more people will pay attention to it.

Young Thomas Wheatley and I had a blast live-blogging Super Tuesday as the results rolled in. Now, Rodney Carmichael and Mosi Reeves figure they’ll get in the act.

So if you’re sitting at home, watching the TV Sunday night and become outraged at the grave injustice that a certain British artist wasn’t allowed into the U.S. to accept her awards, and your partner or your parent or your cat or your dog or your hamster doesn’t seem to give a damn, crank up your computer and go to Crib Notes. Rodney and Mosi will listen to all your troubles.

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