Union endorsements have a significant impact on what members do, less on their families and others. Newspaper editorials mostly help when they confirm what someone is thinking of doing anyway.

The city is probably in its best shape in 25 years and the mayor's in a very strong position.

There is no good information on the undocumented. This is intrinsically a hard-to-survey population.

Most people don't care very much about which City Council members are going to back Gifford Miller or whoever.