Abby Rapoport  Can Obama's Organizing Army Take Texas?   Three
Reasons Why State Polarization Is a Big Deal  Flikr/Americans
Elect   Turns out we’ve been overstating things.  Washington,
Colorado, and the Headaches of a Legal High  AP Photo/Damian
Dovarganes  When Colorado and Washington State passed ballot
measures legalizing marijuana last November, they weren’t just
the first states in the country to do so—they were the first
governments in the world to do so. While other nations and
states, most notably the Netherlands and California, have
decriminalized marijuana possession, the drug is still
technically illegal. That means that while it’s tolerated by law
enforcement, the government need not concern itself with a full-
scale system for regulation and taxation.  Disaster at Close
Range  AP Images/ J. Pat Carter   Five Voting Fights You’ll Care
About Come Election Time  AP Images/Dave Martin  Remember last
year when we all cared about voting policies? Back then,
newspapers were filled with updates on diffe