I know it is perhaps gratuitous, but I did want to point out to our readers that the last essay we published (on Ben Highton’s work) was our 200th essay posted on Election Updates! As of this moment, since we started Election Updates in August 2005 we have had a total of 8,218 visits and 13,496 page views; averaging 62 visits per day and 93 page views per day. Thanks to our readers for taking the time to visit our blog site, and of course, thanks to those of you who pass along comments and suggestions to us!