Guide to Politics, Media & Elections
| Below the fold: Online Magazines & Blogs | Media Issues | Voting Rights & Wrongs | Polls | Voter Guides | The Party Line | Campaign Finances |
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| Taegan Goddard's Political Wire & Political Insider for campaign news. | Ron Gunzburger's Politics1.com -- short news & "by the numbers." | Hotline provides daily briefings on politics from The National Journal$. | CQWeekly$'s CQPolitics covers top stories and hosts several campaign bloggers. |
| Daily Kos has emerged as the most visited lefty blog. Most entries are related to campaign politics, especially its Diaries | ElectionCentral from Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo includes news roundups and commentary. | FactCheck monitors factual accuracy of US politicians & PoliFact monitors Presidential candidates. | RealClearPolitics has a conservative editorial bent but links to news & editorials from various viewpoints. |
| Politico, a 2007 start-up, is already a major with veteran reporters & pundits. | Crooks & Liars is best known for political video clips & speeches. | Dem-leaning Swing State Project concentrates on congressional races. | Politics-Line links to over 150 political commentaries. Site is updated daily. |
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News & Opinioin from Main Stream Media
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| Newspapers & News Magazines: Washington Post: Politics & Columnists | McClatchy: Hot off the Trail & Election2008 | New York Times: Politics, Opinion & blogs | Swamp (Tribune papers) | USA Today: Politics | Time$: ThePage | Newsweek$ | U.S.News & World Report$: Washington Whispers & BaroneBlog | The Economist$ (Democracy In America) The Hill$ & Roll Call$ [both targeting political insiders] | NewsLink |
TV & Radio: NPR: Politics & Political Junkie | Public NewsRoom, via WEOS and WSKG | CSPAN's Capital News | ABC News: Politics, The Note & Political Radar | CBS: Politics | MSNBC: Politics &FirstRead | CNN: Politics & PoliticalTicker | FoxNews | Comedy Central's Indecision2008. Alternative Radio: Bob Edwards | Democracy Now, with Amy Goodman | AirAmerica. |
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| Online versions of some liberal mags:Washington Monthly$'s Political Animal; The Nation$; American Prospect$ (blogs); The Progressive; New Republic$ (Plank); Harper's$; In These Times (ITT List); & MotherJones$ | Online versions of some conservative & libertarian mags: National Review$ (The Corner); Human Events$ (Right Angle); Weekly Standard$; Commentary$ (Contentions), Reason$ (Hit and Run). | ||
| Salon.com [Day Pass required] & Slate are both general online-only 'zines with daily & weekly political features & blogs. | The Atlantic$'s Voices, from across the politiclal spectrum, include James Fallows, Andrew Sullivan, Ross Douthat, Marc Ambinder, Megan McArdle & Matthew Yglesias. | ||
| Wire Services & Web News: Reuters | AP Top Political News (via TBO.com) | UPI | EIN's US Politics | Stateline | Google News | Yahoo News | Ornery Op-Ed Cartoonists:Tom Toles, Pat Oliphant, Tom Tomorrow. Ted Ralls & Daryl Cagle (who also links to many more political cartoonists) | International
coverage: BBC News | The Guardian: America & US 2008 Election | The Independent: Americas | CBC News Indepth | Globe and Mail International | Agence France Presse (AFP) | Al-Jazeera in English | International Herald Tribune |
New York State news sites: The Ithaca Journal | Ithaca Action Network | Syracuse Post Standard | Finger Lakes Times$ | FingerLakes1 | Rochester Democrat & Chronicle | Albany Times-Union's New York State Politics Confidential |
Politics & Opinion from Online Magazines & Blogs |
| Josh Marshall's liberal Talking Points Memo includes TPM Cafe, & TPM Muckraker. | The Huffington Post has news briefs, media analysis, & links to columnists & bloggers. | TruthOut, has a certain cult following with its issues, environment & multimedia sections. | Like it or not & accurate or not, the Drudge Report is the leading right wing muckraker. |
| The Raw Story calls itself an "alternative news nexus." | Leftyblogs: NY consolidates some local political coverage hard to find elsewhere. | Centrist Coalition hosts or links to numerous blogs. | Pajama's Media is a consortium of mostly conservative bloggers. |
| Additional collectives for alternative news & opinion include: AlterNet, Common Dreams, TruthDig,Consortium News, CredoAction, Perrspectives, TomPaine, Progressive Review (Undernews) & ThinkProgress (WonkRoom). | The leading online collectives for conservative news & opinion are TownHall.com, a Heritage Foundation outlet, and Free Republic. | ||
| Additional liberal & progressive blogs include: BalloonJuice, OpenLeft, Hullabaloo, MyDD: BreakingBlue, CT Blue, TalkLeft, Eschaton (aka Atrios), Obsidian Wings & FireDogLake. | Additional libertarian & rightwing blogs include: Patrick Ruffini, Ankle Biting Pundits, Outside the Beltway, Red State, Captain's Quarters, CBN's Brody File, Cold Hearted Truth & Patterico | ||
| Frequently outraged Bob Somerby's The Daily Howler has been called "the first major political blog." Danny Schechter is the News Dissector, | Media Matters, from David Brock, 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 | ||
| Columbia Journalism Review's CJRDaily monitors news reporting and political commentary. | Stanford University collects all the presidential campaign ads. See the most recent or archives of them back to 2000. | ||
| Personal Democracy Forum's techPresident is a group blog that covers presidential campaigns' and voters' use of the web. | Media Research Center has a mission to expose the liberal media bias. It provides CyberAlerts. | ||
| BradBlog is one of the blogs most concerned with voting fraud. Some have called him a conspiracy theorist. | Election Law@ Moritz includes analysis from a law professor and a blog Equal Vote from Dan Tokaji. | ||
| Ballot Access News is Richard Wingers "non-partisan newsletter reporting on the trials and tribulations of folks trying to put candidates on the ballot." | VotersUnite, VerifiedVoting, VoteTrustUSA, Black Box Voting, VoterAction, ElectionLine & VelvetRevolution are all non-profit groups fighting for fair and accurate elections. | ||
| Pollster.com is the combined effort of pollsters Charles Franklin and Mark Blumenthal, aka Mystery Pollster. The site concentrates on polling methodology and validity. |
Polling Report provides polling information compiled from multiple sources, including Zogby, Rasmussen, Quinnipiac, & American Research Group. | ||
| RealClearPolitics includes a good compilation of polling information. |
Dr. PollKatz's Pool of Polls includes some surprising cross-tabulations. |
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| Frank Newport, editor-in-chief and Gallup Guru of the Gallup Poll, blogs about polls for USAToday. |
VoteMaster & FiveThirtyEight both offer election projections in terms of Electoral College numbers --with maps and analysis. |
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| 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 official Barack Obama website, and the Fight the Smears. |
The official John McCain website. |
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| The Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee. |
The Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. |
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| 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. |
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