Read Stuff, You Should

Happy Birthday to Boy George, 51.


Here's the good stuff:

1. Brendan Nyhan details what seems obvious to many of us: campaign trail gaffes don't matter much, if at all.

2. Excellent Nate Silver discussion of why everyone should be so very cautious when dealing with polling -- especially demographic subsets.

3. Mitt Romney's detail-deprived plans, examined by Ezra Klein.

4. Republican women running for office: David S. Bernstein continues to track them, how few they are, and how few are likely to win.

5. And apparently it bank robbery isn't actually a very lucrative profession. Sarah Kliff has more. Oh, and by the way: Do you know if it's raining outside?