The Candidates
This week’s question is: What are some of your favorite political websites?
Mine: Drudge Report, Swing State Project, Real Clear Politics, Polling Report, Slate, and, of course, Race 4 2008. Polling Report is a vastly underutilized resource! The aim of this question is for others to share similarly overlooked sites. I also like to peruse Reason, Newsmax, and Human Events. Washington Whispers is a fun political gossip blog run by the folks at US News and World Report. I’m sure more will come to mind; I’ll update in the comments section, if so…
May 30th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Alex, I’ve missed you the last couple days. Obviously, race42008, also, drudgereport, realclearpolitics, electoral-vote.com, allpolitics.com, rasmussenreports.com, pollingreport.com
May 30th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Here, powerlineblog.com, redstate, and drudge make up my conservative daily reading. I also check out huffington once per day. Aside from an insight to what the left is thinking, it provides an even better peek at what scares the left electorally.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:36 am
I can’t go a day without race42008, redstate, hotair, realclearpolitics and americanthinker.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:14 am
While we’re speaking of websites, I highly recommend visiting johnmccain.com and clicking on the issues tab. He is very specific about where he stands on everything. Some things you’ll agree with, and some things you won’t, but the site is specific about where he stands, and he doesn’t rely on vagaries like hope and change.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:14 am
I enjoying reading The Economist. As a former Marylander I also read The Hedgehog Report.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:16 am
1. Race4 2008
2. RealClearPolitics
3. Powerlineblog
May 30th, 2008 at 9:26 am
1. Race42008
2. RCP
3. AmSpec Blog
4. NRO
5. Drudge
6. Human Events
I used to really enjoy RedState, but that vanished for me somewhere.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:30 am
fivethirtyeight.com is fine for political junkies and maths junkies, even if it’s not conservative. But it tracks every poll and produces wonderful maps and some quite interesting analyses.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:31 am
1. Race 4 2008
2. Drudge
3. RCP
4. Huff’n'puff
I’m not as much of a fan of RedState as I used to be because even now it seems that the few people that bother to comment there are still griping over the fact that Fred Thompson lost the primary. And too many of them have nothing better to do than to whine about McCain.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Of course, race 4 2008 and RCP cannot be forgotten. The Economist is very fine (but not only on US politics). And don’t miss data on Dave Leip’s electoral atlas, even if it has become awfully lefty on the forum.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Leip’s site is great too. Somehow they manage to catch the latest polls before most other sites.
This is a good page to bookmark for the general election.
http://uselectionatlas.org/POLLS/PRESIDENT/2008/pollsa.php
May 30th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Leip also has the cool “election calculator” where you can play with the numbers of past elections and make it so Dewey actually beat Truman or Nixon beat Kennedy.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I love uselectionatlas
May 30th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Whoa. fivethirtyeight.com is written by one of my favorite sportswriters, Nate Silver.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Politico and Race42008 are on my top bar. Drudge is good, but the web layout makes me wanna throw myself through a plate glass window. I try to keep up with Patrick Ruffini and RCP most of the time.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:11 am
This one kills em.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:20 am
i’m kind of a n00b, so i just read politico, RCP, and race42008. i used to enjoy national review online, but have lost interest, and i used to like andrew sullivan’s blog at the atlantic, but stopped when he lost all sanity over obama.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Aside from Race 42008, of course:
1) Article 6 Blog
2) Drudge
3) Hot Air
4) Hugh Hewitt
5) Powerline
6) Instapundit
May 30th, 2008 at 10:34 am
The ACT Blog
May 30th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Redstate, Race42008, Real Clear Politic, Swords Crossed,
May 30th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Here, RCP, Dave Leip, and just got started recently on 538 (looks interesting). Occasionally Reason (to see what the more doctrinaire libertarians are thinking). I check out Kos or MyDD for laughs, too.
Not strictly political, but my favorite blog — Instapundit. I read Drudge, but his tabloid sensationalism is beginning to grate a bit.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I balance them out a bit:
Newsy sources like RCP, Washington Post Politics, Google News election section, Politico
Right leaning like this page, Townhall, electionprojection
Left leaning like Huffingtonpost, Kos
538 looks pretty good too.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
For national its Instapundit, Real Clear Politics, Slate, Race42008, NRO, and New Republic (though their anti-McCain- ever-since-he-sewed-up-the-nomination act is wearing extremely thin). For local election info I go to Patterico’s Pontifications (of “Oh, that liberal media” fame), mainly because he’s the only member of the original Bear Flag League that still posts regularly and hasn’t left the state.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
these are the RSS feeds I subscribe to:
American Research Group, Inc.
AmSpec News Article Feed
Ankle Biting Pundits
Beliefnet: God-o-Meter
BillOReilly.com Blog
Cameron’s Corner
CNN Political Ticker
Comments for eyeon08.com
eyeon08.com
Fact Checker
FactCheck.org
First Read
FITSNews For Now
GraniteGrok
Hot Air » Top Picks
JohnMcCain2008 On-Line Chair
NYT > David Brooks
Politifact.com statements
PollingReport.com
PowersPoint
Pure Horserace: CBSNews.com
race42008.com
Redstate - Conservative News and Community
SurveyUSA
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
The Brody File - CBN News Blog
The Campaign Spot
The Corner
The Daily Dish
The Hedgehog Report
The Right’s Field
The Trail
Top Stories
TPM Election Central
Weblog of Liz Mair
who is willard milton romney?
WMUR.com - Local Politics
Wonkosphere Buzz Bulletins
Zogby International: Polling News
May 30th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I have to add one. For Florida politics, nothing beats the Sayfie Review. Pretty unbiased with tons of links, it is a great place for news about the political happenings in the Sunshine State.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
My daily internet routine (after checking my email):
DrudgeReport.com, RealClearPolitics.com, Race42008.com, DailyPaul.com, RonPaul2008.com
May 30th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
race42008.com, hotair.com, ace.mu.nu, powerlineblog.com, NRO, redstate
May 30th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I love the Polling Report as well - it’s a fantastic site.
I couldn’t go very long without checking the following sites:
1) Race42008
2) Real Clear Politics
3) Marc Ambinder
4) Jonathan Martin
5) Campaign Spot / The Corner (NRO)
6) Drudge Report
7) The Hedgehog Report
Other than that, I check First Read, The Ticker, and all the other “professional” political blogs from time to time, and sometimes head over to the Political Wire for a lefty view of what’s going on.
Patrick Ruffini was an indisposable resource during the primaries, but I’ve lost interest in his site since the nominees have been more or less decided now.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
HA!!!
May 30th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Since I have taken a much less prominent role since the end of the primary, I don’t read poliblogs very much.
I obviously keep up with this one, since I am a contributor, but only when I am researching something or looking for reaction to an event do I now go surfing the other blogs.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
i have to say the worst political blog i read this whole season was EyeOn2008.com . there were things mitt romney did that bugged me, but that whole blog was ONLY anti mitt stuff. he even found a way to frame non related to mitt items back to mitt. its fine if you want an anti mitt blog, there were plenty, but at least call it what it was. i guess people like soren dayton and he is with the mccain camp now or something, but that still is the worst political blog i’ve seen. i was thinking of writing him an email, but i dont much think he’d care.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
This one is now my favorite. Easily.
Purely for polling data, I like TPMCafe (click on Election Central).
I also like reading one of the contributors to Human Events, though I can’t think of his name right now.
I grew up reading newspapers, so I find all of this pretty overwhelming. I find it is better to stick to just a few favorites to avoid cyber-overload.
For pretty good general news reporting from MSM — just the facts and the data, pretty much — I sometimes check out the USA Today site.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
pollster.com is another one I like