political news resources thread

[el jefe]

this is so dub, ST, et al. never again suffer the embarassment of posting a story we all read yesterday


collections of breaking stories:
taegan goddard's political wire liberal tilt in terms of focus, but very current.
realclearpolitics (news, polls, electoral college map, and more) IMO, the site has a slight conservative tilt, but is very current and comprehensive


"news":
msnbc - DNC propaganda
fox - RNC propaganda
cnn - infotainment that manages to be neither informative nor entertaining; accused of having a liberal slant
bloomberg - financial hot air, owned by guy who banned soda, but reasonably neutral on non-financial stories

NYT - paper with decent reporting, and liberal op-ed page
WSJ - paper that used to have decent reporting and a conservative op-ed page, but which murdoch is turning into a right-wing tabloid

pbs newshour - an actual fucking news organization that actually obeys widely-recognized journalistic standards
npr - another real news organzation, which for some reason has been branded liberal propaganda
the best news source in america
another great news source

oh nigel.... I DISAGREE
the torrygraph
don't have a joke for this one


poll and electoral college tallies:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/ (left-leaning)
http://www.electionprojection.com/index.php (right-leaning)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ (slightly right-leaning)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/pollster/ (left-leaning, IME slow to update)


misc:
an excellent tracker for campaign spending and ads tallies who has how much money and where they're spending it, whether the ad is positive or negative ad, etc.; has a nifty map and several lists and charts
unemployment rate
stock market
price of gas

[schneibler elf]

This is a dumb idea.

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[schneibler elf]

Well, for the purpose of preventing people from reposting stories anyway

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[el jefe]

italians are a dumb idea

[Worldtraveller]

You should get a mod to abuse their powers and sticky it.

[daap-umop-bnp]

The purpose of a web forum is not to "post stories". It is to have discussions on those stories. Sometimes even stories as ancient as yesterday.

Did I miss an actual conversation about that story?

[Testy Calibrate]

This thread will be an awesome place for you to post all your political stuff guapo. One thread to rule them all.

[brugroffil]

I see what you did there

[el jefe]

The purpose of a web forum is not to "post stories". It is to have discussions on those stories. Sometimes even stories as ancient as yesterday.

Did I miss an actual conversation about that story?

i know that, i'm just giving you a hard time. my real reason is that i hope it'd be useful to people to have a collection of links like this.

[el jefe]

political news focused

politico - used to have a reputation as center-right, but reasonable. then it reported about the numerous sexual harassment complaints against herman cain, and republicans decided the paper was a liberal rag making up smears about cain to derail his candidacy. when the accusations turned out to be true, or at least years old and coming from real people, politico didn't get their old reputation back.

the hill - quality is sometimes marginal, but has lots of stories and is pretty current

rollcall - i don't read it much, but it looks comparable to the hill

[el jefe]

votesmart.org has a lot of useful information

for example, here you can look up a given politician's ratings by every special interest group, for all time

[sanshou]

where can i find how to make you stop posting

[el jefe]

if you hit the "log out" button, i promise you won't see my posts anymore

[sanshou]

maybe you should just shut up

[el jefe]

maybe you should just PUT up

[sanshou]

maybe we should have a mod war

[buttershug]

Let's have a Mod war but first give everyone mod status.

It'll be fun, just try it and see.

[el jefe]

i agree

[el jefe]

attention everybody -

i need to be given emergency mod powers in order to deal with this new and dangerous threat. i assure everyone that this is only a temporary measure, and that i will not abuse this power, nor use it to consolidate my position once it is granted. i can understand any concerns people may have about risks this may pose to TR's constitutional system of government, but ask yourself this: what good is freedom if you're dead? when TR is destroyed and many innocent people have been killed because you wouldn't grant me these powers, what will you tell the survivors? why do you hate TR? why do you hate freedom?

[Autonemesis]

Don't forget this site. It's got the latest.

[el jefe]

why, yes. yes, it does

keep up the good work

[HollandScotts]

Insideautomotive.com is by far the best one I've found. He's a local guy with a Saturday morning talk show about cars, but also does a 30 minutes history segment call "Backside of American history" that covers little known stories from history most people don't know. They can be downloaded in pdf form from a google search. Great reading. Also covers politics, news, oil, transportation, history of music, ect.

He updates the site twice a day with the top stories from around the world from several dozen international news sites.

No bias, doesn't vote, has disdain for both parties. And a degree in journalism. and history

[rednoise]

holy shit dude. where you been?

[HollandScotts]

Getting banned from cf. Then I suddenly had the urge to argue guns with gamera and came back.

[rednoise]

damn. gamera doesn't post here anymore.