The first day of Fall! The local primaries are done, but there is still campaigning going on. The Democratic Coordinated Campaign is walking neighborhoods for candidates this weekend. Are you out working for any candidates this weekend?
A few long reads for you:
The League of Dangerous Mapmakers — The Atlantic takes a look at the gerrymandering business and the GOP focus on winning via the map (not via their ideas). Highly instructive.
Greg Mitchell warns that the debates may not be the game changer that the media is predicting — especially since they keep hiring focus groups that call it correctly more often than the TV talking heads do.
Via the NYT Public Editor — In New Policy, The Times Forbids After-the-Fact ‘Quote Approval’. Why they let their subject approve quotes is beyond me. From the NYT Executive Editor:
In the end, Ms. Abramson said, it is a control issue. “The journalist shouldn’t be a supplicant,” she added.
What interests you today?