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  The Great Blog Crisis, Continued

  Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 11:54 AM | By Christopher Beam
  You may remember our item last month about the drought of campaign blog names. We rounded up all the names that have been taken—variations on “trail,” “political,” “bus,” "ballot"—and then listed all the names that are still available. It was only a matter of time, we figured, before someone would have to draw from that list.
  
  Friends, that day has come. First we saw Newsweek’s Stumper, then the New Republic’s The Stump. Now, via washingtonpost.com, meet the new blog on the sphere: Stumped. (We'd predicted “Stump’d”—close enough.) It’s a write-in column in which former Los Angeles Times editor Andres Martinez answers readers’ questions about the presidential campaign. In his first column, he offers up a highly scientific formula to determine whether you should vote for Hillary or not. In fairness, the name is sort of perfect. But we still reserve the right to give Stumped a wedgie for unoriginality. Note to the Dubuque Telegraph Herald: “Stumpy” is still available.
  
  (Slate is owned by the Washington Post.)
  
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• Christopher Beam is a Slate political reporter.

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