Some Non-Partisan Resources and Historical Data

[Brainster]

Okay, we all have lots of partisan websites and blogs that we visit, but I would like to use this thread for some non-partisan links that we can all use for references and other data. My initial nominations:

Dave Leip's Atlas of US Elections (http://uselectionatlas.org/). The best single source for historical US Presidential Election data. Endlessly useful and fascinating.

Politics 1 Political Calendar (http://www.politics1.com/calendar.htm). Shows the dates of all the primaries and major events in the 2008 political season.

Real Clear Politics Polls Page (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/). Shows latest polls and poll averages.

Please add to this list!

[Puppycow]

PollingReport.com (http://www.pollingreport.com/index.html)
Slate's Political Futures Feature (http://specials.slate.com/futures/2008/)
Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network (now with the Political Lunch Video Podcast) (http://www.chbn.com/)
And I really like the It's All Politics Podcast from NPR (http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=5495231).

[Puppycow]

I think this thread should be stickied. If any moderator sees this and agrees, please do the honors.

[Puppycow]

OnTheIssues.org (http://www.issues2000.org/default.htm) A resource to find out every candidate's position on each issue.

[andyandy]

Okay, we all have lots of partisan websites and blogs that we visit, but I would like to use this thread for some non-partisan links that we can all use for references and other data. My initial nominations:

Dave Leip's Atlas of US Elections (http://uselectionatlas.org/). The best single source for historical US Presidential Election data. Endlessly useful and fascinating.

Politics 1 Political Calendar (http://www.politics1.com/calendar.htm). Shows the dates of all the primaries and major events in the 2008 political season.

Real Clear Politics Polls Page (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/). Shows latest polls and poll averages.

Please add to this list!

the realclearpolitics' was interesting (though an internal link took me to one of those annoying "your computer is infected with....download this software" pop-ups...)- i didn't realise obama was so far behind on national democrat polling.... i guess he really needs Iowa and then has to hope for a bounce.....

[Puppycow]

bump :D

[Puppycow]

The Politico (http://www.politico.com/)

[Brainster]

I always find the political "trading" markets interesting.

Iowa Electronic Markets for the Democratic and Republican Nominations (http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/markets/data_nomination08.html).

InTrade's political prediction markets (http://www.intrade.com/#).

[Brainster]

Memeorandum is a very interesting site; it tracks the hottest topics (http://www.memeorandum.com/) in the political blogosphere and blogger reactions.

[Puppycow]

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[Puppycow]

The Israel Factor (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerPage.jhtml) is Haaretz's (a centrist to liberal-left leaning Israeli newspaper) ranking of how pro-Israel the various candidates are.

New York politicians Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, and Michael Bloomberg rank highest, Barack Obama lowest of the serious candidates.

[Puppycow]

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[Puppycow]

http://thepage.time.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/

[The Painter]

http://thepage.time.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/

You're kidding with these, aren't you?

[Puppycow]

You're kidding with these, aren't you?

They aren't exactly non-partisan, but they are information aggregators with fairly high production values.

[Brainster]

Here's a nice "At-A-Glance" look at the Republican Delegate count (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/republican_delegate_count.html) and upcoming primaries/caucuses.

And the corresponding page for the Democrats (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/democratic_delegate_count.html).

[The Painter]

They aren't exactly non-partisan

So you've just usurped the whole point of this thread. Now it's a joke. Congratulations.

[Brainster]

So you've just usurped the whole point of this thread. Now it's a joke. Congratulations.

I agree. I specifically did not link to RCP's opinion pages (even though they cover both liberal and conservative editorialists) because it could be seen as partisan. The Huffington Post? Shall we link Red State next?

[Puppycow]

Sheesh. Puritans. I'd actually like to have a link to Red State. Is there anyone who can't judge for themselves what is partisan and what is not? If you limit yourself only to non-partisan sources, you are probably going to miss out on some important news, information, and yes, even opinions that shape the race.

Here, for balance:
http://www.redstate.com/

[Puppycow]

Here's a good one, which I think is also non-partisan.

http://www.opensecrets.org/

[IchabodPlain]

Here's a good anti-corruption website:

http://www.transparency.org/

[Brainster]

Here's a good one, which I think is also non-partisan.

http://www.opensecrets.org/

Yep, terrific website, another endlessly useful source of information. Sorry if I hammered you on the Huffpo and The Page. Really we should add a separate post for the best partisan sites as well.

[Puppycow]

This one looks like it might be interesting:

http://www.journalism.org/

The Project for Excellence in Journalism: Understanding News in the Information Age.

Here you can see such topics as which candidates are getting the most news coverage and what percentage of the coverage is positive, neutral or negative.

[Drudgewire]

Wrong thread http://www.lethalwrestling.com/upload/doh.gif

[Dragoonster]

Little late for the Dem. primary race (well maybe not :( ), but I've been following http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/02/ultimate-delegate-tracker.html for a good round-up of different media results on delegates per state, summaries and scenarios, plus a superdelegate tracker down to each individual super.

More useful for November is: http://www.270towin.com/ It features an interactive Electoral College map (you can switch states red to blue and back to work out your own scenarios; not sure I trust it's poll/prediction stuff though). It's state histories are also very interesting.

[Puppycow]

Campaign Calendar (http://thepage.time.com/this-weeks-the-page-in-time/) in case you want to know important dates in the campaign such as the conventions or when Veepstakes speculation will reach a crescendo (July 15 according to Mark Halperin).

[Puppycow]

(Wrong thread)

[geni]

http://www.google.com/trends

For what people are searching for.

http://stats.grok.se/

For what people are looking at on wikipedia.

Gives some idea of what topics the average internet user is considering.