The Slate Mailer and Other Election News

There's an election next Tuesday and, like it or not, slate mailers are arriving at the homes of registered voters. With local political coverage harder and harder to find, they are sometimes all that many Californians have to go on. Allan Hoffenblum, a veteran of moderate Republican politics, publishes The Target Book, which both parties regard as the last word on legislative and congressional districts. He used to run his own slate mailer.