Greetings to everyone out there in Blog-land. The first two posts are from e-mails earlier this week, and I realized after writing them that rather than spend the next ten months writing e-mails about the campaign to friends, I should just do a Blog and we won't have these long e-mail strings clogging our mailboxes. And, hey, why not make this public while we're at it? It will be interesting to see how many people stumble across it.

Anyway, the basic idea is to raise "talking points" that reflect my take on the campaign and to provide links to key information and insightful analyses.