• The next daily dispatch will be posted Tuesday, May 27. Hope everyone has a safe and meaningful Memorial Day weekend.

• A new ad from the groups American Commitment and American Encore reminds voters that the sales pitch for the Affordable Care Act was much different than the reality. Sen. Kay Hagan and other Democratic incumbents seeking re-election are featured.

• The State Board of Elections reports higher turnout in May’s primary election than the 2010 midterm primary. More details in the link. sbe-canvass

• The watchdog group Center for Responsive Politics reports that outside independent expenditure groups (aka Super PACs) already have spent more than $1 million in six Senate races. Leading the list is North Carolina, where supporters and opponents of Hagan and GOP nominee Thom Tillis have spent nearly $9 million.

• Billionaire Democratic hedge-fund manager Thomas Steyer, who’s pledged to spend $100 million this year to elect Democrats, is not supporting the re-election efforts of Hagan and several other vulnerable incumbents. Steyer is a crusader for renewable energy, and Hagan supports completion of the Keystone XL pipeline. (This space reported earlier that Steyer had given $5 million to the Senate Majority PAC, which is running ads attacking Tillis and other Republican Senate challengers.)

• Hagan released a statement about the scandal at and investigation of Veterans Administration hospitals and clinics.

• Longer, fewer terms? Three GOP senators filed a constitutional amendment that would extend state House and Senate terms to four years while limiting individual members’ tenure to four consecutive terms. It’s unclear if Senate Bill 817 will get a hearing or a floor vote in the short session, but if it does — and passes — it will be on this fall’s ballot.