Over the weekend I wrote a post which I said would be part of a series on Russia. That's coming. But the first post led to a brief interchange with TPM Reader BS, which I wanted to share here in full, his notes and my replies.

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You know we have PollTracker and our Electoral Scoreboards here at TPM to keep you up to date on the latest numbers for all the races around the country. But I wanted to point out that we now have the "toplines" for both just below the navigation bar up at the top of the TPM front page. See "Election Scoreboards" just below the TPM logo. And then all the data is to the right. There you'll find the current PollTracker Avg for the presidential national horse race polls and the Electoral Scoreboard tally of electoral votes. Click through on either to go to the full data.

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The AP says the GOP may be reaching its 34 or 55 "breaking point" with Donald Trump.

Over the last week or so, I've had a number readers ask me, why does Trump seem to be closing the margin on Clinton when his campaign seems to be in freefall. The short answer is: he's not. Here's the slightly longer answer.

With the furor over the Trump campaign and the on-going DNC et al. hacking story, I've become increasingly interested in what was already a pet interest of mine: the growing list of Russian propaganda networks operating in the West and Russia's growing embrace of asymmetric warfare, particularly information warfare, whether in the form of hacking, surreal state-sponsored trolling operations or news and propaganda networks operating more or less openly with state sponsorship. But before getting into a series of posts on the subject, I wanted to start with one key and often overlooked point.