All politics, all the time

The much-better-funded corporate bloggers over at AEI's liability project have saved me the trouble of writing a run-down of how tort reform and other legal issues are playing in elections around the country.

Their hot spots: Southern Illinois and Georgia judicial races, AG races in Connecticut, Arkansas and Oklahoma; governors' races in Wisconsin, where the incumbent vetoed a bunch of tort reform bills over the last few years, and Florida, where the GOP candidate picked a trial lawyer as a running mate; and Iowa's first congressional district, where Bruce Braley, the president of the Iowa Trial Lawyers' Association, is running a strong race.