A helpful reminder to our no-doubt enormous British readership: voting registration ends Tuesday at 5 pm. Don’t forget the printable registration form over at About My Vote. While you’re out doing that, the rest of us will be reading about how the Conservative party is trying to adjust to Clegg’s campaign of change (spoiler alert: not very well). - Travis Boisvenue

General election news

• Election day at-a-glance [BBC]
• Scottish National Party launches manifesto [politics.co.uk]
• Oliver Burkeman takes “Clegg is the new Obama” to its sarcastic grave [Guardian]
• Tory advisers switch tactics, pull attack ad in favour of personal Cameron message countering Clegg [Wales Online]

Nuts and bolts

• The Whoops Report: Cameron plagiarizes Clegg in personal message countering Clegg [The Independent]
• Manifesto authors answer listener questions (podcast) [Guardian]
• “Cameron came in not so much to answer 15 questions as to dispatch them” [Guardian: David Hare's Election]
• If you’ve been following @punditsguide you might have noticed this great two-parter on selection bias in UK voting [FiveThirtyEight: pt. 1, pt. 2]
• The good, the bad, the empty: what a party slogan is made of [Times Online]

Don’t forget to drop me a line at travis@mediastyle.ca if you’ve got news tips or feedback.