Carl Malamud is running for federal office. For head of the Government Printing Office, to be precise. But there’s no election. No matter, he’s running anyway. A week and a half ago, Malamud launched a virtual-roots campaign and Web site – yeswescan.org – in a bid to be appointed by President Barack Obama as the Public Printer of the United States. GPO may seem like a sleepy government outpost to some, but not to Malamud. For him, it would the opportunity of a lifetime. As founder of the California-based nonprofit group Public.Resource.org, he’s spent his career ushering years worth of…