Notice the Barack Obama is my homeboy shirt.

Since super Tuesday the democratic race to the nomination has been dominated by Barack Obama with a ten race streak. You can attribute his success to statistical data that shows his rising popularity among working class and women voters, a demographic that pre-fatcat Tuesday could be counted to vote Hillary, but I like to think that the real factor to Barack’s steamroller success is the overwhelming support he’s received from indie rockers across the nation.

Some of the groups that have supported Barack include: Bright Eyes, M. Ward, OK Go, Nina Persson of the Cardigans, and Craig Wedren and Nathan Larson from Shudder to Think. There’s even an indie group called Extra Golden with two members from Kenya who Barack helped to obtain entrance visas into the US. They were so thankful they wrote the Senator a song.

Extra Golden - Obama

Adrew Bird who put out last year’s amazing release Armchair Apocrypha [CD] will be the latest indie dude to fund raise for the Presidential candidate. Bird will be holding the event at Chicago’s Hideout on Feb. 28.

With any more indie support in the primaries I’m predicting that hipsters will nationally snub the general elections as “completely dependent on mainstream tastes.”

Andrew Bird - The Trees Were Presidential
ABX - The Trees Were Presidential (Youngbloodz vs. Andrew Bird)