* This election’s not likely to be a mandate. And here is my post arguing that 2008 was no mandate for Obama, as far as voters were concerned.
* How much did news coverage move the polls in 2012? Sam Best and David Fan say: “a little.”
* New articles on voter identification and voter restrictions in Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maine, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. (Hat tip to Amy Fried.)
* Competitive districts do not breed more moderate representatives.
* What’s going to happen in state legislative elections this year?