[johnthebaptistmoore]

I’m surprised that Howie did do the death pool this early in the week as well as so soon after the last death pool. I honestly could come up with decent choices for the death pool for the whole day, and I’m always amazed when people can’t think of anybody to pick for the death pool near the end of the hour.

[Calvin Locke]

My guess is that Howie was influenced by "happens in threes", so he might as well get it over with.

That, and he might sense that people are bored with Obama and Hillary at this point, so anything to avoid talking about that for a period of time, no matter how brief the respite.