Following up on my op-ed yesterday about a potential democracy deficit at Americans Elect, I learned of this important piece from Micah Sifry back in July.  Our Oregon also did this series on the group.

A number of readers wrote to me, with some claiming the group is meant to help Obama’s reelection and others that it is a Wall Street shill meant to hurt his reelection chances.

A reader also confirmed what my students reported to me: that of the subset of the 2 million people who’ve signed up for the group and answered their opinion polls, the average answers skew to the left.  That does not seem to be the leaning of many of the leaders of the group.

Finally, thanks to the Burns & Haberman blog for taking notice of the oped.  They are not on my blogroll yet, but will be.  One of the projects I plan to undertake soon is a revamping of the blogroll.  Suggestions welcome (though not necessarily followed).