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Guide to Politics, Media & Elections

Campaign Politics Resources with the most direct focus on it. Only selective articles available for resources marked with $

Hotline & Wake-up CQWeekly$'s Taegan Goddard's Ron Gunzburger's Call provide daily CQPolitics covers Political Wire & Politics1.com -- briefings on politics top stories and Political Insider for short news & "by from The National hosts several campaign news. the numbers." Journal$. campaign bloggers. ElectionCentral, Daily Kos (the most Politico & Conservative Real from Josh visited lefty blog) Washington Clear Politics links Marshall's has strong coverage Independent to news & opinion investigative (& of campaign exemplify from various liberal) Talking politics. independent media. viewpoints. Points Memo. PoliticsHome & Dem Swing State Crooks & Liars is Arianna's Huffington memeorandum Project for best known for Post for lefty news auto-generate congressional political video clips. analysis. political news. races.

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)

TV & Radio: NPR: Politics & Political Newspapers & News Magazines: Junkie | Public NewsRoom, via WEOS Washington Post: Politics & Columnists and WSKG | C-SPAN | PRI: Politics & | McClatchy: Hot off the Trail & Society | ABC News: Politics, The Note, Election2008 | New York Times: Politics, Political Radar & Jake Tapper's Political Opinion | Swamp (Tribune papers) | WSJ Punch | CBS: Politics | MSNBC: Politics (Washington Wire) | USA Today: Politics & FirstRead | CNN: Politics & | Time$: ThePage | USN&WR$: PoliticalTicker | FoxNews | Comedy Washington Whispers | The Economist$ Central's Indecision2008 | Democracy (Democracy In America) | The Hill$ | Roll Now, with Amy Goodman | AirAmerica | Call$ | Politics-Line [links to 150+ Christian Broadcasting Network's Brody editorials] | NewsLink File Online versions of some liberal mags: Online versions of some conservative & Washington Monthly$'s Political Animal; libertarian mags: National Review$ (The The Nation$; American Prospect$ Corner); American Conservative (blogs, (blogs); The Progressive; Harper's$; New Eunomia); Human Events$ (Right Angle); Yorker (Hendrik Hertzberg), In These Weekly Standard$; Commentary$ Times (ITT List) & MotherJones$ (Kevin (Contentions) & Reason$ (Hit and Run). Drum & David Corn) Online-only 'zines Salon.com & Slate, Across the politiclal spectrum: include political features. The Raw Story Atlantic$'s Voices (Sullivan, Ambinder, & OpEdNews are alternative news Fallows, Douthat, McArdle, Crook & compilers; the Drudge Report a right- Coates) & New Republic$ (The Plank & wing news plugger. The Stump) Wire Services & Web News: Reuters | Ornery Op-Ed Cartoonists:Tom Toles, AP Top Political News (via TBO.com) | Pat Oliphant, Tom Tomorrow. Ted Ralls UPI | EIN's US Politics | Stateline | & Daryl Cagle (who also links to many Google News | Yahoo News more political cartoonists) International coverage: New York State news sites: BBC News | The Guardian: America & The Ithaca Journal | Ithaca Action US 2008 Election | The Independent: Network | The Albany Project | Syracuse Americas| First Post | CBC News Post Standard | Finger Lakes Times$ | Indepth | Globe and Mail International | FingerLakes1 | Rochester D & C | Albany Agence France Presse (AFP) | Al- Times-Union's Capital Confidential | Jazeera in English | International Herald DragonFlyEye | Leftyblogs: NY Tribune

Political Blogs & Such

Collectives for alternative news & opinion include: Democratic Underground, The leading online collectives for ThinkProgress (Yglesias & WonkRoom), conservative news & opinion are AlterNet, Common Dreams, TruthDig, Pajama's Media, TownHall.com (a Consortium News, CredoAction, Heritage Foundation outlet), Cato @ Perrspectives, TomPaine, Progressive Liberty & Free Republic. Review & TruthOut. A few progressive "Other" blogs: blogs: OpenLeft, Rightwing blogs: BalloonJuice, Hullabaloo, TheNextRight, Mudflats [from Voting rights and Samefacts, Outside the Alaska], wrongs news & Democratic Beltway, BAGNewsNotes blogs: BradBlog Strategist, MyDD, Confabulum, Dan [photoblogging], VotersUnite, Black TalkLeft, Eschaton Drezner, Red State, Donklephant, Box Voting, (Atrios), Hot Air, Dean Moderate Voice & ElectionLine & AmericaBlog, [Esmay]'s World, Centerfield. VelvetRevolution Newshoggers, Cold Hearted Truth Blogometer tracks Skippy & & Patterico. both sides. FireDogLake.

Polls & Statistics

Polling Report provides polling Summary analyses of polls are avilable information compiled from multiple from Pollster.com, CQ's Polltracker, sources, including Zogby, Rasmussen, Frontloading HQ & the Princeton Quinnipiac, Gallup & American Research Election Consortium. Group. Electoral College maps are available from Dr. PollKatz's Pool of Polls includes VoteMaster, 538, NPR, EVStatus, RCP, some surprising cross-tabulations, Zogby, Electoral Map, Election especially one linking Bush's popularity Projection, Cook Political Report, CNN, to gas prices. Washington Post & even Karl Rove.

Media Issues Frequently outraged Bob Somerby's The Media Matters monitors the U.S. press Daily Howler has been called "the first in an attempt to "correct conservative major political blog." Media coverage is misinformation in the U.S. media." Also one of his particular concerns. found here is Eric Alterman's Altercation. Fact Checkers: Annenberg Center's Stanford University collects all the FactCheck, Washington Post's Fact presidential campaign ads, while Checker & St. Petersburg Times/CQ's techPresident covers political use of the PoliFact. web. Media Research Center (CyberAlerts) & EandP, CJRDaily & Romenesko monitor Newsbusters have the mission to expose news reporting and political commentary. the liberal media bias.

Voter Guides

On The Issues presents several The League of Women Voters provides approaches, including grids, profiles, voter resources and education packets quizzes, and quotations, on where the and SmartVoter election information. candidates stand on a wide range of NYS and Tompkins County LWV chapter topics. Covers Presidential, House, and both have their own websites. Senate races. ProCon.org, a nonpartisan A list of more than two dozen parties is citizenship/education organization, available from Project VoteSmart with emphasizes issues, although some "objective facts detailing candidates' claim the questions posed so bias. It has backgrounds and issue positions." a special section on the 2008 Presidential election. SmartVoter provides nonpartisan voter The Green Papers provides facts and information, including issues and ballot figures on state and local elections, with information. a handy chronological index. New York State Board of Elections: Congress.org covers issues, has a details about the election process from Presidential candidate guide, & provides designating petitions to sample ballots. congressional and state legislative race Included are links to county boards, such information and other voter information. as Tompkins and Seneca.

The Party Line

The official Barack Obama website, and The official John McCain website. the Fight the Smears.

The Republican National Committee, The Democratic National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, National Republican Committee, Democratic Congressional Congressional Committee. Campaign Committee.

A Look at Campaign Finance

Center for Public Integrity & Common OpenSecrets, a guide to money in US Cause frequently take up the cause of Elections from the Center for Responsive campaign finance issues. Politics.

Author: John R. Henderson Last updated: August 12, 2008 This page maintained by: Library Webmaster