Special Elections and Presidential Runoffs

(Bloomberg View) -- 1. Dana Moss at the Monkey Cage on the U.S. strike on Syria and diaspora politics. 

2. Matthew Shugart, looking at France, on presidential runoffs. 

3. Dan Drezner on romance and diplomacy.

4. Sean Trende at RealClearPolitics on the Georgia special election. Solid.

5. Harry Enten at FiveThirtyEight on the Georgia special election. Also solid!

6. And Jared Bernstein refutes a supply-side piece. Harsh, but fair. 

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