Does Contrived Work?

How silly is the whole Unity thing.

Hillary and Barack unified? Riiiiiggght. A tie vote in Unity means Barack and Hillary are unified? Nope. Hillary won New Hampshire but Barack won the nomination equals unified. No, not exactly.

But the duo will go to Unity New Hampshire on Friday where they each received 127 votes, and use the dramatic symbolism the town represents (???) to blow away the world with how much they love each other!

In announcing that decision Monday, the Obama campaign was less than subtle in its symbolism. The announcement noted, for example, that in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire last January, the town of Unity split evenly between Obama and Clinton - 107 votes to 107 votes.

Some people, who haven't thought about the true symbolism of the meeting place, are taking it to mean something even more... unified.

But Unity could also be a point in the argument that Obama should pick Clinton as his vice presidential running mate, an argument he doesn’t appear to want to make but others in the Democratic Party do.

Together, their vote total in Unity nearly equaled the entire vote for the Republican field, 214 for Obama-Clinton, 216 for the 21 Republicans on the New Hampshire ballot.

Which means... what exactly?

McCain edged out second place finisher Mitt Romney. But no vote combination of McCain and any of his Republican rivals came close to equaling the Obama-Clinton combo.

Now that - that's powerful.