Two items that relate to Rick's news of the day:

1. The June issue of Campaigns & Elections magazine has an article on close
elections, and the difficult choice of whether to contest the election or
run in a future campaign.

2. The NY Sun article about a possible Liberal Party endorsement of
Bloomberg raises an equal protection question:

"One question yet to be answered is whether the law will change, allowing
the Liberal Party to occupy its own ballot box. The head of the party, Henry
Stern, told The New York Sun yesterday that he would like his party to have
its own line on the ballot and is considering going to court to argue that
barring the Liberal Party from the ballot violates its equal protection
rights.
'There should be a way to support the mayor from people who are not
Republicans and who are not devotees of the Independence Party,' he said.
'It's worth going to court over because we want our own line. We want people
to be able to vote for a candidate on our line rather than being lumped in
with other parties.'"