Guide to Politics, Media & Elections (Post Obama Victory Edition)

Below the fold: Blogs | Polls | Media Issues | Voter Guides | The Party Line | Campaign Finances

Campaign Politics Resources with the most direct focus on it. Only selective articles available for resources marked with $
CQWeekly$'s CQPolitics's insiders include Political Wire & David Corn.	Talking Points Memo is Josh Marshall's investigative (& liberal) daily blogzine.	Crooks & Liars is best known for its liberal bent & political video clips.	National Journal$'s Hotline is only one of its several political blogs.
Daily Kos (the most visited lefty blog) has strong coverage of campaign politics.	Wire Service & Web News: Yahoo News \| Google News \| Reuters	Politico, The Raw Story & Washington Independent exemplify independent media.	Conservative Real Clear Politics links to news & opinion from various viewpoints.
Political News & Opinion from Main Stream Media Only selective articles available for resources marked with . Others may require free registration. (The interconnectedness of some can be viewed at Big Ten Conglomerate*)
Newspapers & News Magazines: Washington Post: Politics \| McClatchy \| New York Times: Politics & Freakonomics \| Swamp (Tribune papers) \| WSJ (Washington Wire) \| Time$: ThePage \| USN&WR$: Washington Whispers \| Economist$ (Democracy In America) \| Politics-Line \| NewsLink; Cartoonists: Tom Toles & Daryl Cagle (with more links)		TV & Radio: NPR: Politics & Political Junkie \| Public NewsRoom, via WEOS and WSKG \| C-SPAN \| ABC News: Politics, The Note & Jake Tapper's Political Punch \| CBS: Politics \| MSNBC: Politics & FirstRead \| CNN: Politics \| FoxNews \| Comedy Central's Indecision \| Democracy Now \| AirAmerica \| Christian Broadcasting Network's Brody File
Online versions of liberal mags: Washington Monthly$'s Political Animal; The Nation$; American Prospect$; The Progressive; Harper's$; New Yorker (Hendrik Hertzberg), In These Times & MotherJones$ (Kevin Drum)		Online versions of conservative & libertarian mags: National Review$ (The Corner); American Conservative (Eunomia); Human Events$ (Right Angle); Weekly Standard$ & Reason$ (Hit and Run).
Online-only 'zines that aren't specifically focused on politics: Huffington Post, Salon.com, Daily Beast, Slate.		Across the political spectrum: Atlantic$'s Voices & New Republic$ (The Plank).
International coverage: BBC News \| The Guardian: America \| The Independent: Americas \| CBC News Indepth \| Globe and Mail International \| Agence France Presse (AFP) \| Al-Jazeera in English		New York State news sites: Ithaca Journal \| Ithaca Action Network \| The Albany Project \| Syracuse Post Standard \| Finger Lakes Times$ \| FingerLakes1 \| Rochester D & C \| Albany Times-Union's Capital Confidential
Political Blogs & Such
A few progressive blogs: BalloonJuice, OpenLeft, Democratic Strategist, MyDD, TalkLeft, Eschaton (Atrios), Hullabaloo, AmericaBlog, Washington Note, FireDogLake & DragonFlyEye	Collectives for alternative news & opinion: Democratic Underground, Leftyblogs: NY, ThinkProgress (Yglesias), AlterNet, TruthDig,Common Dreams, CredoAction, TomPaine & TruthOut.	Specially focused blogs: BradBlog [voting rights], BeliefNet's political blogs, Gristmill [environment], Swing State Project [congressional races], BAGNewsNotes [photoblog], Centerfield	RIghtwing blogs & online collectives: TownHall.com, Cato @ Liberty, Free Republic, NextRight, Outside the Beltway, Dan Drezner, Hot Air, Cold Hearted Truth, Patterico & Drudge Report.
Polls & Statistics
Summary analyses of polls are available from Pollster.com, 538, Cook Political Report, CQ's Polltracker, Frontloading HQ & the Princeton Election Consortium.		Polling Report provides polling information compiled from multiple sources, including Zogby, Rasmussen, Quinnipiac, Gallup & American Research Group.
Media Issues
Frequently outraged Bob Somerby's The Daily Howler has been called "the first major political blog." Media coverage is one of his particular concerns.		Media Matters monitors the U.S. press in an attempt to "correct conservative misinformation in the U.S. media." Also found here is Eric Alterman's Altercation.
Fact Checkers: Annenberg Center's FactCheck, Washington Post's Fact Checker & St. Petersburg Times/CQ's PoliFact.		Stanford collects presidential campaign ads, as does Living Room Candidate. techPresident covers political use of the web.
EandP, CJRDaily & Romenesko monitor news reporting and political commentary.		Media Research Center (CyberAlerts) & Newsbusters have the mission to expose the liberal media bias.
Voter Guides
On The Issues presents several approaches, including grids, profiles, quizzes, and quotations, on where the candidates stand on a wide range of topics. Covers Presidential, House, and Senate races.		The League of Women Voters provides voter resources and education packets and SmartVoter election information. NYS and Tompkins County LWV chapter both have their own websites.
A list of more than two dozen parties is available from Project VoteSmart with "objective facts detailing candidates' backgrounds and issue positions."		ProCon.org, a nonpartisan citizenship/education organization, emphasizes issues, although some claim the questions posed so bias. It has a special section on the 2008 Presidential election.
SmartVoter provides nonpartisan voter information, including issues and ballot information.		The Green Papers provides facts and figures on state and local elections, with a handy chronological index.
New York State Board of Elections: details about the election process from designating petitions to sample ballots. Included are links to county boards, such as Tompkins and Seneca.		Congress.org covers issues, has a Presidential candidate guide, & provides congressional and state legislative race information and other voter information.
The Party Line
The Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee.		barackobama.com, The Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
A Look at Campaign Finance
Center for Public Integrity & Common Cause frequently take up the cause of campaign finance issues.		OpenSecrets, a guide to money in US Elections from the Center for Responsive Politics.