Jacqueline Mackey Paisley Passey has first-rate overview of the election along with lots of photos in this entry here, and a terrific news roundup full of lots of blogs I didn’t know about. Be sure to see all her new stuff here.

One of the links she has, on Babalu blog (which I admit I wrote the entry for), has some marvelous discussion in the comments section from the commentors, there are some really knowledgable people who have a lot of colorful detail there. The item is here.

Taylor Kirk at The Latin Americanist has some interesting thoughts about the undeserved obscurity of this key election here.

And don’t miss Boz’s post on five points about Oscar Arias, who still leads by a thread, it can be read here.