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Pam Williamson in Boone sends the following link from The Nation: Democratic Latin-American strategy? Joe Velasquez and Steve Cobble put forth an argument for Democrats looking to the Southwest for presidential votes.

Pew Center Poll. After Hussein's Capture. Key words: "overall public opinion about the president and the war has not been fundamentally recast by Hussein;s capture.:

Pew Center Poll. The 2004 Political Landscape: Evenly Divided and Increasingly Polarized. One of the best statistical pictures of what is going on. Not really new, but a framework for everything that will happen over the next year.

Ruy Texeira of the Century Foundation (and coauthor of The Emerging Democratic Majority) surveys recent polling data and finds things not as bad for Democrats as most commentators.

A different -- but even more optimistic spin -- from Bruce Reed, President of the Democratic Leadership Council, published in the Washington Post.

The latest Gallup and Harris polls on the War in Iraq.

The November Issue of North Carolina Data-Net, published by the Program for the Study of Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is devoted to a very useful study of the demographics of the 13 North Carolina Congressional Districts.