Is This Really News?

I saw a headline that said "Obama Gets Scant Support From White Voters in Mississippi". I hate to fall back on stereotypes (this might be a lie), but come on- did anyone expect that white voters in Mississippi would be voting for the black guy? Really?

Really?

Other news:
-Tucker Carlson lost his TV show on MSNBC. Which shows that Chipper Jones does smile upon his creations.
-Super Smash Bros. Brawl is awesome.
-Finished re-reading American Tabloid, began re-reading the sequel, The Cold Six Thousand. Part of why I like these books is that sometimes, they are very funny. Sometimes reading them makes you want to take a shower to escape the grime. Sometimes, these two things happen at once.
-Schoolkids Records is closing in Chapel Hill, and I read online that the Raleigh store's lease is up in December or so, and they might move (again) or worse. This sucks.
-I've never watched American Idol. The closest I've come is having the last few minutes on, muted, while checking my email and waiting for House to come on. But I listen to Tony Kornheiser's podcast, and he is obsessed with American Idol, so I know a little about what goes on. Tonight, while I was looking for a song in iTunes for my mother, I noticed that the number one song in iTunes is Jeff Buckley's version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". Now, this is one of my all time favorite songs, and Jeff Buckley's version is one of the more captivating things in music, but that doesn't explain why a song from a guy who drowned nearly 11 years ago, and was never all that famous, suddenly surged to the top of iTunes, which is usually dominated by the worst of the top 40. How did the late Mr. Buckley (I mean the late Jeff Buckley, not his father, Tim, who is also dead) make it to the top of the charts? I'm fairly certain it is because recently on the American Idol, someone sang the song "Hallelujah", and that led people en masse to start downloading Buckley's cover. Which is all really weird. But my deeper question is this: why didn't Cohen's (slightly inferior version, because of the different sets of lyrics he used in different versions) version make the charts? And now, do people think that Buckley wrote "hallelujah" the way that some people think that Lennon and McCartney wrote "Twist and Shout" and Hendrix wrote "All Along The Watchtower"? Also, it is incredibly fucking weird that Jeff Buckley is on the top of the iTunes chart in the year of our Jones 2008. That can't be overstated.
-I'm halfway through a book about My Bloody Valentine's Loveless album (which I put down a few days ago and need to pick back up) and I'm no closer to understanding why I like the album so much, given how many things about it seem like they would annoy me.