CAMPAIGN SLOG 68 Days to Go!

On the way to Election Day 2008, the following has happened:

The Democrats may be approaching unity, but for the rest of us, there's discord over one matter: What exactly was that color Hillary wore for her big speech? Yeah, there are those who'll say that pondering such a topic is sexist. But on the other hand -- tangerine? cantaloupe? mango? Or can no mere fruit fully capture the man-made brilliance of that pantsuit?

No doubt it was chosen for the way it stood out against the stage background, blue and orange being opposites on the color wheel, but a color like that -- "salmon sashimi?" the Slate folks twittered -- can't help but make us contemplate the greater meaning.

Online commenters offered many helpful theories, including that Clinton was expressing solidarity with Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution, which boosted Viktor Yushchenko to power after allegations that he'd been the victim of voter fraud. "In the modern political imagination, ORANGE is a color of a successful revolution," a commenter wrote on a pro-Hillary, down-with-Barack Web site.

Other loaded descriptions included: Guantanamo jumpsuit orange. Denver Broncos orange.

Kate Smith, a color trend forecaster in Lorton, described Clinton's pantsuit as an "intense, kind of citrusy-looking orange" that, happily, coincided with the global direction of the color in general. Orange is going away from red and toward yellow, she explained: "I think that what she was going for was that forward-looking orange."

-- Libby Copeland