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Political Blogging Resources
Posted by techfun • 10/30/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS]
Topics: fact checking, political, resources
I came across a few links people might find useful when blogging about or discussing politics and figured this would be a good place to stick them so people can find them when needed:
- Washington Post's The Fact Checker ( www.washingtonpost.com/factchecker )
- Annenberg Political Fact Check at UPenn ( www.factcheck.org )
- St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly's Politifact.com ( www.politifact.com )
- Real Clear Politics ( www.realclearpolitics.com )
User Comments
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www.factcheck.org/ --- a nonpartisan website that seeks to hold up reality to political claims.
Might I suggest you make this thread sticky?-
Good idea, looks like someone already has.
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Me be dense sometimes.
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No, Mark, we're messing with your head (unintentionally). I made it sticky in response to your comment. Then J.D. read your comment and found that it was already sticky.
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Another couple of items I should have included in the original list:
Open Congress
www.opencongress.org/
OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress.
For most people, finding out what's really happening in Congress is a daunting and time-consuming task. The legislative process is frequently arcane and closed-off from the public, resulting in frustration with Congress and apathy about politics.
Small groups of political insiders and lobbyists know what's really going on in Congress, but this important information rarely makes its way into the light. The official website of the library of Congress, Thomas, publishes the full text of bills, but we can do much more to inform ourselves and make our government accessible. Now, with OpenCongress, everyone can be an insider.
OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to help make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation.
Open Secrets
opensecrets.org/
The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government.
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Are any of you using del.icio.us to bookmark such resources? (I did not find del.icio.us accounts linked on your profile pages.)
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I've never used del.icio.us -- I suspect that my bookmarks would be of interest only to someone who was putting together a parody collection or some such. Bureau of Labor Statistics, anyone? How about the USCCB?
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You mean your bookmarks would only be good for people interested in facts, and whose interested in those? You might have a point. But you could try anyway. You could have a collection good for public use.
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This may be useful for some.
Tech Tools for Voters
by Laura Gordon-Murnane
Posted On December 3, 2007
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The Nation Magazine and the Drum Major Institute have launched www.mayortv.com - a site dedicated to helping mayors from big cities to try to get the attention of the 2008 presidential candidates and force them to address urban issues.
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I learned about a blog on NOW (PBS) tonight: www.openleft.org
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Learned of a new one today on NPR: www.techpresident.com
TechPresident was started by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry as a new group blog that covers how the 2008 presidential candidates are using the web, and vice versa, how content generated by voters is affecting the campaign.
The 2008 election will be the first where the Internet will play a central role, not only in terms of how the campaigns use technology, but also in how voter-generated content affects its course. TechPresident.com plans to track all these changes in real-time, covering everything from campaign websites, online advertising and email lists to the postings on YouTube and who's got the fastest growing group of friends on MySpace.
Our team of bloggers is made of veterans of the 2004 and 2006 elections, ranging across the political spectrum. Their expertise covers everything from website design to the latest in mobile tools and social networking sites. And we'll look closely not just at what the campaigns are or are not doing, but what voters and activists are doing online to independently affect the election. -
My all time favorite show that makes the media itself the focus of its attention is "On the Media" from NPR.
www.onthemedia.org/
You can download their podcast via iTunes too. -
You might want to add www.ontheissues.org/ a great site to find exactly how our political leaders stand.
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Christian Science Monitor has added Patchwork Nation
www.csmonitor.com/patchworknation/
Its an attempt to topple the Red/Blue paradigm and get down to a more granular look at community types and their voting habits.-
I have to say that I find some of their choices strange enough to make me question the usefullness of the community profiles. Lincoln City, Oregon is a top tourist spot on the beautiful Oregon coast and seems to me an odd choice to embody "Service Worker Central". My own county, a very diverse area that includes exurban housing occupied by "Seattle liberals" fleeing huge housing costs in the county just to our north, a major seaport that moves huge volumes of freight, a small but vibrant city with a growing arts scene and two military bases. While the bases are certainly important to the county they do not dominate the life and politics of the county and I was quite puzzled that my county is classified as a Military Bastion and is represented in this exercise by Hopkinsville Kentucky and for the life of me I can not IMAGINE that that city would in any way compare to this one. While I can see that our military personnel may share voting patterns with their counterparts in other areas, the communities and regions that surround them are so starkly different that I would think this designation would need to be applied only to areas where military voters are a clearly decisive factor in local elections, which certainly isn't the case here.
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libcom.org is good. lots of resources. -
Another resource for promoting your political blog is www.carnivalofpolitics.com - digg meets politics in a weekly magazine.
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Great sites - its often quite difficult for an european like me, to find out who and what is true and what is not, concerning politics and the proces of creating a socialy responsible american society, that can lead the planet and ultimately mankind into the next millenium.
USA is without doubt the most powerfull country in the world - a country that coluld lead the world to its end or to a new beginning. If Obama wins the election, I'll begin to hope again, hope for the posibility that things may turn around, before 3. world war gets started by Bush and friends.
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daniel23: thanks for sharing. libcom.org is a liberal communist site. It's exactly what I vote for. -
Henrik. Your reasoning sounds nice and compassionate. But here are the problems I find with it. You say that "nature" supports homosexuality. But nature also produced AIDS as a feedback to homosexual behavior. And in the final analysis to this discussion (and all discussions) is: what are the "ultimate" truths about all matters and can we be aware of them? In my many year search to try to find those truths out, I've landed on the fact that God exists and the Bible (not the Book of Mormon) is true. I PROVE those truths (scientifically, logically, experientially and statistically) in my new book, THE PROOF that God exists and the Bible is true. That would be too long of a thing to go into here, but if you are interested, I spell a lot of it out at
www.sexiqueens.blogspot.com
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