Too bad Texas isn't a primary power player

If you're a neighborhood mom or dad even slightly following the presidential race, you'll love one of today's feature stories on slate.com — a dad who toted his tiny daughter all over New Hampshire to score a photo of her with each of the presidential candidates. The anecdotes about each candidate and his or her campaign staff are almost as priceless as the photos.

Current and future parents, start thinking now about timing your conception to correspond with the 2010 Texas gubernatorial campaign ...