- New survey of small business owners: visualization, paper. It finds a narrow lead for Obama as the candidate “who is more supportive of small business.”
- Excellent look at polarization by Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Haidt. See also this new article by Shanto Iyengar, Gaurav Sood and Yphtach Lelkes.
- The last installment of the Lewis-Beck and Tien presidential election forecast. Their two models predict different results.
- New section on class and inequality is part of the annual Midwest Political Science Association conference. Via Nick Carnes.