Russia’s Levada Centre polling group named foreign agent

Russia’s leading independent polling agency has been labelled a “foreign agent” by the justice ministry and says it cannot now work. The Levada Centre surveys political opinion among Russian people. Its director, Lev Gudkov, said the move, which comes two weeks before parliamentary elections, amounted to “political censorship”. CONT. BBC News Read more »

Why Clinton supporters shouldn’t panic

… This race was always going to tighten, as I have been telling audiences for my election talks for the past month. Those who point to 1964 or 1972 as electoral precedents in which an ideologically extreme candidate got crushed are misreading history. As Andrew Gelman points out, the results […] Read more »