Lawrence and Sides write about their research on political blogs. Matt responds. Bloggasm finds that traffic levels were up on all political blogs in the first half of 2008.
Ana Marie Cox says that McCain doesn’t want to talk about "girlie" domestic stuff.
I’ve never been one of those who thinks McCain’s social conservatism is for show and that deep down, he’s a closet liberal. He really
is pro-life, anti-gay marriage, etc. But it is also true that he would
rather not talk about it. His aversion to those topics is at
fifth-grade-and-cooties level. It’s his reluctance to discuss those
matters that, I think, makes some people hope he’s uncomfortable with
the actual views. Who knows, maybe he is.
Ezra Klein writes, "prominent women are one-third less likely to be encouraged to run for office than prominent men". Actually, I was recruited and turned it down for work and family reasons.
Apt. 11d 
“One-third less likely to be encouraged” has all the smell of a junk statistic to me. Not that there’s not a study somewhere, but I can’t imagine what that would even theoretically mean.
Jim was encouraged by three people to run for County Commissioner, but Jane was only encouraged by one? Three times as many men were encouraged than women (even once)? Does that include spouses? (“Honey, you should really run for office!”)
Googling the authors of the study with the phrase “third less often,” I got news stories that “women were a third less likely than men to have been recruited to run for office.” I got that “women were more than one-third less likely than men to have considered a candidacy.” I got that “women were one-third less likely than men to throw their hats into the ring and enter actual races.”
Three different things, obviously.
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