The MSNBC commentator and Air America radio host Rachel Maddow has felt the need to proclaim that she doesn’t hold any special allegiance to Sen. Barack Obama:

I should note here, briefly, that I don’t have a personal preference between Senators Clinton and Obama as to who would run a better campaign against John McCain, or who would be a better President. I think both Obama and Clinton would probably be pretty good general election contenders, and probably they’d each be a good president. (50% of my hate mail tells me I’m in the tank for Obama and 50% of it tells me I’m in the tank for Clinton - although the level of vitriol on each side has risen and fallen with the tide of the campaign).

Regular viewers of MSNBC might be surprised by this statement (has anyone else seen her roll her eyes seemingly whenever Sen. Clinton’s name is mentioned?).