P. Diddy was probably a campaign manager

It's 4 weeks to the state primary! Sometimes when you have friends who are campaign managers for state House seats in a competitive legislative race, they make jokes about not giving you a ride home from a mutual friend's Hurricane Katrina fundraiser unless you vote for their candidate. And you know they're partly serious.

I usually throw myself into ballot initiatives, not candidate races. But I can still relate to the countdown mode.