Denis MacShane at comment is free on what British politicians could learn from Barack Obama
Daniel Finkelstein in the Times assesses the reliability of US pollsters
And Mike Smithson at PoliticalBetting says that the US pollsters that include mobile phone users in their samples are giving Obama the biggest leads
Philip Webster in the Times on the growing closeness of the relationship between Gordon Brown and Lord Mandelson
David Miliband uses his Foreign Office blog to write about his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo
Sunder Katwala at Next Left, the Fabian Society blog, says Lewis Hamilton should not receive an honour until he lives up giving abroad as a tax exile