As part of its Series II 2008 update Upper Deck included a sub-set called Presidential Predictors featuring this year's candidates for the oval office. As we've seen in past blogs on iTaggit, this kind of presidential crossover is becoming more and more common in baseball card releases. Recent examples include the Topps 2007 "misprint" Jeter card featuring our current president, Washington's nosehair in the 2007 Allen & Ginter set, Jefferson's signature from Upper Deck and the "First-Pitch" cards in the UD Masterpieces release this year (see the Clinton card in my collection). Maybe we should have a whole presidential cards category on iTaggit if this keeps up.

Anyway, since the Democratic Primaries came down to the wire this cycle, UD had to produce a design depicting both Obama and Clinton winning the nomination so they could be ready for either event. What went wrong is that some of the Clinton Edges Obama cards have seeped out into the market. So, you tell me: accident or planned publicity stunt? Either way, the UD artists really need to go back to painting class...

Full story at The Orlando Sentinel.