Mitt Romney's Weird Laugh

Mr. Romney loves guessing the ages and ethnicities of voters — often incorrectly. Whenever Mr. Romney bends down to chat with a little kid, the whole press corps giddily inches forward, waiting for the inevitable moment when he asks a boy who is clearly 4 or 5, “How old are you? 9? 10?” (His favorite guess for nationality is French-Canadian, which was a reasonably safe bet in New Hampshire, but became more precarious in more recent primary states, like Florida and Ohio.)

— It’s almost worth subscribing to the New York Times just for their “story behind the story” emails for subscribers. The one that went out this morning, by Ashley Parker, from inside the Mitt Romney bubble, was pretty great. (“For the record, Mr. Romney’s laugh often sounds like someone stating the sounds of laughter, a staccato ‘Ha. Ha. Ha.’”) Of course then these are the kinds of things you just also want to read in the paper.