In articles published this week and linked to below, Washington Post columnists Michael Gerson and Ruth Marcus consider the implications of recent poll results and State Department e-mail developments.

• Gerson reports that one official has the month of August to right her listing campaign. Gerson doesn’t really buy it.

• Marcus writes that the allegation that classified information was improperly transmitted on Clinton’s private e-mail server — is, or should be, a non-scandal. Still, it’s a mess of Clinton’s own making.