From my Twitter feed:
-Robert H. Frank calls for “social sanctions” of dishonest elites — very similar to my “naming and shaming” idea
-Related note to Orrin Hatch — “social sanctions” are vastly preferable to criminalizing false claims of military service
-You know the Sestak scandal allegations have no legs when the WSJ editorial page can’t muster any serious outrage
–New York Daily News op-ed by political scientists Seth Masket and John Sides on effects of unemployment and growth in midterm elections
-Polarization alert: Gulf oil spill pushes up support for environmental protection except among Republicans
-Emory’s Alan Abramowitz finds that more conservative Republican senators lose votes, but relationship likely to vary by state partisanship (see section 5.2 of this paper)
-CJR’s Greg Marx debunks hype of the Contract with America and other “gimmick platforms” — they’re unlikely to matter much