Mary Ann Akers at the Washington Post‘s Trail blog reports that “folks all across Idaho are howling over a snafu that put presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on a political button with GOP Sen. Larry Craig” instead of Democratic candidate Larry LaRocco. The button was not commissioned by LaRocco’s campaign, but rather a private company Tigereye Design. A Tigereye official explained how the mix-up occurred: “When our designer sat down to make this button, he positioned his mouse pointer over a photo of Larry LaRocco. This particular designer uses a fairly wide pointer arrow, which may have been in contact with a photo of Larry Craig.” Akers writes: “A wide pointer arrow, eh? Is that like a computer’s mouse’s equivalent of a wide stance?” The Post provides this illustration:
