Obama and Oprah in South Carolina and Iowa

Obama seems to be in what the pundits repeatedly call a “statistical dead-heat” with Hillary Clinton. Perhaps he’s slightly ahead or behind in the early states (Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina). In any event, he owned the news cycle over the weekend. The question has been what effect the Oprah factor will have on Obama’s chances. You can see from the first video below, in any event, that people came out to see them.

Now I’m four-square for Kucinich, but in the event of a choice between Obama and Clinton, the choice is pretty easy (see video #2, below).