Carsey presents a sound piece of research planted solidly intwo fields: voting behavior and state politics. The primarythrust is testing a model of campaign strategy and voterreaction. Carsey takes advantage, as have many recently, ofthe steadily accumulating state campaign and exit pollingdata. Although not nearly as rich as the American NationalElection Survey (ANES) in content, these data providereliable state samples and an abundance of cases in eachstate, which the ANES seldom does. We now often can usethe states as true social science laboratories of democracy-expanding N without adding the confounding factors thatplague across-time comparisons of national elections.