Barack Obama

Who: Senator Barack H. Obama (D-IL)

Musician supporters: Nas, Common, Will Smith, and Wyclef Jean all showed early support for the "Draft Obama" campaign. Billie Joe Armstrong gave a half-endorsement. Donnie McLurkin made a controversial campaign appearance.

What I assume is on his personal music player: Obama has been probably the most followed candidate on the trail, so we sort of know this answer already.

On the Record: CNN reported that Obama likes Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, and Beyonce.

Barack has inspired the song "Obama Girl" we all know, but also the song "The World Votes for Obama". He also is probably the most name-dropped candidate in rap music. What rhymes with Tancredo?

A punk supergroup featuring Greg Hetson and members of Goldfinger, Guttermouth and the Dee Dee Ramone Band have named themselves Black President.

Obama's website includes many meet-up groups inclusing Muusicians for Obama and Soul Music Lovers for Obama, to name two.

Obama addressed the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, which is pretty cool if you ask me.

Obama has criticized hardcore rap music, but he is still the candidate most likely to nominate Ludacris to be Attorney General.

Obama has taken money from the RIAA, yet has criticized internet proviers who try to limit P2P action.

Will Obama answer my question: "What music are you currently listening to?": Barack is a rock star. Politicians get dozens of e-mails a day. Rock stars get 100's of e-mails a day.

The Obama campaign know this, so they have tried to anticipate questions, and have a pretty extensive FAQ section on their webpage.

After sending an e-mail, I got a quick reply back, that was a standard response; still credit for acknowledging something. The response began "Thank you for contacting Obama for America. The volume of messages we are receiving has exceeded all expectations. While it is difficult to respond to thousands of messages a week as efficiently as we would like, the level of interest and nature of the comments reflected in these communications are very gratifying. Your thoughts on our campaign and America's future are greatly appreciated."