# Political/Election Resources Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-election-resources-thread/645368>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 28, 2012, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-election-resources-thread/645368 "2012-12-28T09:21:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-election-resources-thread/645368/1 "2012-12-28T09:21:50Z")

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I’m surprised nobody started a thread like this so far.

[http://www.nytimes.com/](http://www.nytimes.com/)-Your standard newspaper of record

[http://www.washingtonpost.com/](http://www.washingtonpost.com/)-A very good paper for politics, I like their opinions in general better than the NYT

[http://www.politico.com/](http://www.politico.com/)-More political news

[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/)-Good roundup of political news from all over the web

[http://www.theatlantic.com/](http://www.theatlantic.com/)-Excellent periodical with some good in-depth articles

[http://www.nationalreview.com/](http://www.nationalreview.com/)-Get your fill of conservative commentary

[http://www.tnr.com/](http://www.tnr.com/)-Ditto for liberal commentary

And two of my personal favourites:

[http://american.com/](http://american.com/)-Very well thought out opinion pieces on often obscure issues

[http://welections.wordpress.com/](http://welections.wordpress.com/)-Possibly the most awesome blog ever IMO. Analyzes major elections from around the world from America to Ghana including background, electoral geography, and voting trends.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-election-resources-thread/645368/2 "2012-12-28T12:37:01Z")

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I thank you for that last link.

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-election-resources-thread/645368/3 "2012-12-28T16:46:25Z")

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Nate Silver’s 538 blog (behind the NY Times’ paywall): [Nate Silver - Blog - The New York Times](http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/)

Using numbers to bring sense to political discourse since 2007.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-election-resources-thread/645368/4 "2012-12-30T20:19:17Z")

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[Alternet](http://www.alternet.org/) – for a progressive take on politics.  
[Democratic Underground](http://www.democraticunderground.com/) – learn what the Democratic rabble are roused about.  
[Free Republic](http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index) – invaluable resource for frothing at the mouth conservative babble.

There are other, fringier sites out there (Stormfront, etc.) but for many of them the grip of sanity is tenuous indeed.