* Michael Lewis-Beck and Charles Tien update their presidential election forecast.
* Former White House speechwriter Jon Lovett imagines a world where the superPACs rule.
* Map of where people say soda, pop, or Coke. My homestate, North Carolina, is surprisingly heterogeneous. When I was growing up, we said “Coke.”
* Republicans have more, um, orgasms. I can’t figure out if that’s controlling for anything else.
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