This site is an sibling of the wonderful and addictive Pollbludger site. While Pollbludger is focussed on the Australian political arena, William Bowe has been very supportive of his community in maintaining a series of blog posts deling with events in the US primaries and now the general election. However, with some interesting political activity on the local horizon, US related threads will no longer be maintained. This site has been established on the principal of community continuance and for better or worse we really need to get though to election night, and quite probably the handover of power in the weeks that follow. Where things go from there is anyone’s guess.
As to policy and procedure I will be encouraging regular contributors to take up contributor and administrative roles to support the normal functioning of the site and expect my own contribution to be limited to some technical stuff enabling this community. If all goes to plan, I’d hope for half-a-dozen regular contributors and the normal vibrant, spicy, and compelling commentary.
Opinions/suggestions on how we manage this can be added below.
Go for it!
This page has the following sub pages.
Suggested links.
http://thehill.com
http://www.politicalwire.com
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5
Best polital paper. Login required.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Demographics African American Voters
http://216.55.182.132/FairData/Historical/map.asp?command=scope&map=0
Demographics Latino Voters.
http://nmindependent.mypublicsquare.com/view/swinging-for-latino
Might be a bit left wing. Who me?
Heheheheh Chris B,
free to link til the cows come home.
Must be a liberating feeling eh?
OK Cat, my own bookmarked list of things US electionly, and psephy particularly, that others might not have in their own reading.
First up, of course, is the splendid
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
Then, in no particular order comes
http://skepticalpollster.com/
One for the dashing but nerdy types among us:
http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/PollyVote/
A site that is incredibly good for the pointy end of the pseph business
http://www.pollster.com/
A lot of longer term historical polling info from here:
http://politicalarithmetik.blogspot.com/
The Crosby-Textor style slant from the Democrat ex-insider perspective – always worth reading!
http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/
A few other misc types:
http://ccpsblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/
And of course, for those not yet Rude-Converted
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Honestly – how can you not go past the latest post titled “Dirty Fuckin’ Hippies…For Real”
“Hippies? Really, John McCain, is that the best you can do? Hippies? Is this the 1976 election? The McCain campaign’s latest ad, titled, seriously, “Love,” opens with scenes of crazy kids gettin’ their freak on, maybe even on McCain’s lawn….”
heh!
2 Optimist Saves me cutting and pasting if they find it themselves.
I think Catrina wants to know which ones you like.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/
http://www.chris-floyd.com/
http://gorillasguides.com/
for butterflies only.
Go for it Catrina; if you want something ‘differrent’ just ask. Cheers.
Links have been updated to include all of the above suggestions. I’ve sorted these into ‘News’, ‘Polling’ and ‘Blogroll’ just to streamline things a bit.
Goodnight all.
Was wondering about discloser of Ip’s, email addies etc, Normally its a given that they wont be disclosed, but I noticed that this site seems to have a distinct (no ESJ) feel about it and was wondering what would happen if/when he shows up and it got me thinking. ( Catrina, I wasn’t trying to piss you off, but seems I did anyway, that wasn’t my intention)
So, I asked here
comment 259 +
Spam inbox at 8
Thanks for bringing the discussion here, and just for reference I wasn’t pissed-off or anything. I was simply being frank with you. Nobody here is paid, nobody is under contract, and there is no formal framework though which administrators can provide such an assurance without subjecting themselves to potential liability.
I certainly will not be taking on any legal liability without the appropriate legal, administrative and technical framework that would allow me ensure such a commitment. I would also advise other potential administrators to follow my lead.
Catrina this ones brilliant!
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/demographic_map/
Can I add a plea for instructions on how to post quotes and smileys? I must have missed that bit.
Thanks.
roxanna at 11
Take a look at the page linked below and feel free to try things out.
http://pollbludger.wordpress.com/about/playground/
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