Pfeiffer also addressed the coverage of race involving America's first black president, breaking through the unceasing news cycle, and what the White House gets out of Obama's off-the-record meetings with columnists.
The numbers vary tremendously, though, depending on the combination of races involved.
And there was a different mix of races involved in that: Irish, black, people from China, Italians, Greeks, Germans..
The new style of racing involved shorter races not run in heats, over distances from five furlongs up to 1.5 mile.
It will have a record number of women — at least 81, with a couple of races involving women yet to be decided — in the House of Representatives.
The first accident of the race involved Scott Speed who clipped the rear wing of Wurz' Williams and went into the hairpin with a broken suspension.
A recent tightening of the race involved a surge among Republican-leaning independents, who are more certain to vote and are following the contest more closely than their Democratic equivalents, polls suggest.
Here's the conclusion of his new essay on the subject: "The parallels between the colonial dynamic and American urban environments like Newark are striking, disturbing and thought-provoking given the obvious issues of class and race involved.
Perhaps it is no surprise that after all the underbrush was cleared, the Senate race involved none of Mr. Treffinger's huggable "poor politicians trying to ply their trade".
The future of this race involves lawsuits, acrimony, and a hardening of bitterness between the two camps.
