Harper's Magazine is famous for its index, a list of numbers about the world. Like the game show Jeopardy's "answer in the form a question", this gimmick is rarely especially effective. For example,

Year that a signboard tallying the U.S. national debt was erected near Times Square: 1989 [Douglas Durst (N.Y.C.)]

Year in which it is expected to run out of digits: 2007

—Harper's

is pretty awkward way to deliver this factoid.

Talking Points Memo presents a few numbers today which are better suited to the Harper's Index format:

Number of Technorati mentions of Ned Lamont (CT): 26,578
                           of Sherrod Brown (OH):  6,764
                                of Jim Webb (VA):  4,516
                          of Bob Casey, Jr. (PA):  3,157
                              of Jon Tester (MT):  2,325
                             of Jack Carter (NV):  2,077
                        of Claire McCaskill (MO):  1,976
—Talking Points Memo

Who are all of those people who aren't Ned Lamont? They are Democratic challengers to incumbent, vulnerable Republican senators. And they're being ignored by the netroots (and the netroots' wallets) who are distracted by a fight between a Democrat and an independent with a track record of voting strongly Democrating who has pledged to caucus with the Democrats. Karl Rove is laughing all the way to the End Times. (For the record: I've never liked Lieberman. I think he's the political equivalent of an empty .300 hitter (a baseball player whose superficial statistics are good but whose fundamentals are bad), and I hope he loses. But if I contribute money, it won't be to help Lamont.)

And the second Harper's figure from this morning:

Number of reporters contributing to Friday's front page New York Times story on the JonBenet Ramsey case: 13

Number of reporters contributing to Friday's front page New York Times story on the federal court ruling that the NSA warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional: 2

—Talking Points Memo