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Election Day 2008: The Best Blogs and Social Media Resources

Election Day 2008: The Best Blogs and Social Media Resources

barack-obama-talking-with-john-mccainUpdate 1 Nov 2008: We’ve added several links. Thanks to Jackie Sheeler for making the first suggestion. Feel free to add more in the comments!

The 2008 US presidential election will be over in about 100 hours (unless Florida can’t make up its mind again).

There are, in fact, other elections as well next Tuesday. But of course we all know the real battle is Obama vs. Palin – er, McCain.

Without further ado (and before the comment firestorm begins below), The Blog Herald presents the best blogosphere and social media destinations to track Election Day 2008, in no particular order:

1. CNN Political TickerYes, it’s a mainstream media site. But it’s also a blog. The differences are so blurry now in 2008 anyway. :) It’s common to see hundreds of comments on a post here as Election Day approaches. You can subscribe to twice-daily email alerts if you don’t want the barrage of zero-hour coverage to disturb your day off from work. Bias: Obama.

2. WordPress Tag SearchGrab the feed for “Election Day,” “Joe the Plumber,” etc. The WP community always has fresh insights, opinions, rumors and rants. Bias: neutral.

3. BlogPulse – Follow hot terms’ ups and downs as the voting results come in en masse. Bias: neutral.

4. Google Blog Search – Recently fitted with a more social homepage, GBS should offer a good mix of the top Election Day stories in the blogosphere. Honorable mention: Technorati Politics channel. Bias: neutral.

5. Memeorandum – A highly addictive memetracker portal to political news, with heavy emphasis on blogs. Bias: neutral.

6. Election 2008 on Twitter – Hypnotic auto-refreshing river of Twitter updates having to do with this year’s elections. Think it’s moving fast now? Just wait until Tuesday. Bias: neutral … but Twitter users on the whole sem to favor Obama.

7. Official Barack Obama Blog and Official John McCain Blog – Can’t go wrong getting bloggy news straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. Bias: duh.

8. BlogCatalog Politics Channel – Includes blogger discussions, groups, a blog directory and search capabilities. Bias: neutral.

9. UStream.TV – Live video from all over the place. Bias: neutral.

10. The Caucus – Another mainstream-slash-new media source of great info and perspective. By The New York Times. Bias: Obama.

11. The Huffington Post – The number one blog in the world as ranked by Technorati. Bias: Obama.

12. Daily Kos – Another gigantic political blog that will be liveblogging the whole Election Day. Bias: Obama.

13. Think Progress – “Think Progress is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization. With the blog, CAPAF seeks to provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies.” Bias: Obama.

14. The Daily Dish – By Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic. Bias: Obama.

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15. Talking Points Memo – By Joshua Micah Marshall. Bias: Obama.

16. Michelle Malkin – One of the best conservative voices. Bias: McCain.

17. Ben Smith – Politico.com blog covering all sides of election news. Bias: Neutral, I think. Correct me if I’m wrong.

18. The Corner – From the National Review. Bias: McCain.

19. Crooks and Liars – By John Amato. Bias: Obama.

Which one of these resources is your favorite? What others would you recommend?

And who are you voting for and why? ;)

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