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Last night The Tonight Show, tonight Barack Obama is on the Tavis Smiley Show.

Seen on Twitter a couple hours ago:

In Nevada today and excited to be on the Tavis Smiley Show tonight on PBS. Check your listings for what time it airs locally.

 Barack is getting around this week. With all the Ellen Degeneres dog stuff happening it would have been a good week for one of the candidates to be on there.

Barack Obama will be on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight:

Our family, by choice, gave up TV over a year ago so we'll only be able to catch it after the fact. I'm hoping that Jay Leno actually asks Barack Obama some tough questions and doesn't just yuck it up with a bunch of softball questions. A better interviewer for all the candidates would be Howard Stern on Sirius but I doubt he'll get any of the candidates. Maybe Ron Paul is the only one I could see being willing to go on Stern's show. Stern might be raunchy but he's one of the best interviewers I've ever heard and that includes Larry King (another known softball lobber).

In order to make informed choices in elections we need to know the answers to the tough questions.

Tonight I compiled the Twitter accounts for each of the election 2008 Presidential candidates that I could easily find from the elections page. If you know of others that are missing, please add in the comments.

[D] Barack Obama (5,330 following, 5,024 followers, last update 7 days ago, added 6:15pm, recip added immediately): http://twitter.com/BarackObama
[D] Hillary Clinton (0 following, 83 followers): http://twitter.com/hillaryclinton -- is this official?
[R] Mitt Romney (0 following, 26 followers): http://twitter.com/mittromney -- is this official?
[R] Rudy Giuliani (locked account, updates are protected): http://twitter.com/rudygiuliani -- is this official?
[D] John Edwards (3,947 following, 3,621 followers, last update 11 days ago, added 6:21pm, recip added immediately): http://twitter.com/johnedwards

The following I haven't added to my Twitter account as of yet, but may be doing so in the following days and weeks.

John McCain: ?
Bill Richardson: ?
Chris Dodd (21 following, 75 followers, last update 11 days ago): http://twitter.com/chrisdodd
Joe Biden (45 following, 67 followers, last update 19 days ago): http://twitter.com/joebiden
Fred Thompson (795 following, 749 followers, last update 5 days ago): http://twitter.com/fredthompson
Sam Brownback: ?
Ron Paul (0 following, 174 followers, last updated 4 days ago): http://twitter.com/ronpaul2008
Dennis Kucinich (0 following, 14 followers, haven't updated yet): http://twitter.com/DennisJKucinich
Mike Huckabee: ?
Mike Gravel (0 following, 5 followers, haven't updated yet): http://twitter.com/mikegravel -- is this official?

On the homepage of Political Base in the right sidebar the contributions to electoral votes comparison is interesting. Still a long ways to go, but check this out.

Might as well mention I'm really enjoying the layout of this site. Great interaction feature, well designed. Kudos to the dev team.