NP: John Cage, 4'33"

TPM Muckraker points out that Barack Obama has called for the firing of voting rights section chief John Tanner. Paul Kiel goes on to point out:

This is second time this month that Obama has come out hard against a controversial figure from the Civil Rights Division. Earlier, he joined with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) in blocking the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky to the Federal Election Commission.

With all the hay being made about Obama's lack of support from the black vote -- and I'm not going to dredge up all the Andrew Sullivan posts -- I find this to be an interesting approach. Mostly because it's not sexy, but it's critical to the overall picture. Seems he's trying to win over the black vote by working deliberately to enfranchise them with regard to the voting process, and it's something I don't see the other candidates doing. It seems consistent with his character to me.