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.