Understanding the US 2014 midterms: Live-streaming conference Thursday and Friday Inside American Politics Conference Panel on Media and the 2014 Midterm Elections at NYU-Florence (Joshua Tucker/The Monkey Cage) Can't get enough of the 2014 U.S. midterm elections? Curious about the role of the media? polling? Implications of the elections for legislation in the coming months? Ready to start thinking about the 2016 campaign? If so, you may be interested in the "Inside American Politics," a conference taking place today and tomorrow at NYU-Florence's La Pietra Dialogues and live streaming here. Participants include both Democratic and Republican campaign advisers, consultants and pollsters, as well as journalists who have covered these and past campaigns. The full program can be found here. Note that times are Central European Standard Time, so six hours earlier on the East Coast.