Boxer gets a big boost with a personal Obama appearance for her California Senate seat.

Other successful Obama stump stops in the past few months:

• Martha Coakley, candidate for former Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy's seat, 2009
• Jon Corzine, Governor re-election in New Jersey, 2009
• Creigh Deeds, Governor-candidate for Virginia, 2009

(Hint: All 3 seats went to the Republican challenger.) Read more »

As part of the weekend round-up, I'll be briefly going over a few stories that caught my attention as the week was winding down:

Black, said the pot to the kettle. In this case, It's Microsoft accusing Google of anti-trust violations. This is rich, coming from a convicted monopolist. Read more »