Political Blogs

So... being the political junikie that I am, I am constantly looking for new political blogs to explore as well as revisiting old favorites. So, I decided to see what I could see at Google Blog Search and here are a few of the blogs Google says answer to the tag of "politics":

Real Clear Politics
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Polls Show Tight Race For Hastert Seat; Kerry Vows to Disprove Swift Boat Claims; Looking Ahead To 2010; Barry Bonds indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges in steroid case.

The Caucus (New York Times Political Blog)
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Politics, Vegas Style; Sunday’s Breakfast Menu, Nov. 18; Behind Clinton’s Diamonds and Pearls; All Politics Is Local; Turning the B-Word Into Cash

Chris Pirillo
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: How to Make Games; Instant Messenger Virus; Open Source Backup Program for Windows; The Internet is Shaping Politics - Ron Paul

Politics Blog
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Straight Reggie Bushin'; Herschel: "Once again, you are using your public office as an appendage of your political campaign." ; Mud and Guts

Burma Sitmone Weblog
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Chinese Communist hate Freedom Of Burma!; Burmese bloggers are united; Life under Military Boots, Latest News from Burma at MoMakha

Politickles - jokes and political cartoons
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: George Bush on “We’re going to have the best educated American people in the world”;

Pakistan Politics
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Govt Notifies Newspapers Not to Discuss Geo TV Shut Down; Background on Hardline Islamists Who Beat Up Imran Khan; Letter From Activist Lawyer in Karachi;

Politics Junky
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: But the Dems are cutting earmarks in half...; Rudy's New Ad - I Kicked New York's Ass; Ron Paul's voting record; 25% of homeless Americans are veterans; Clinton Caught with Planted Questions; early Guiliani political ad with Donna Hanover

Politics & Funk
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Does Pat Robertson Hate You? ; Don Vito, Ralph Nader, and My Green-Fringed Jacket Listen to Simon and Garfunkel Together on Halloween and Marvel at the Cold, Moonless Night

'08 Roadies (Salon.com)
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Why Britney Spears should be a campaign reporter; Politics ain't beanbag

Daily Kos
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Sunday Talk: Gobble Gobble Up Those Savings Edition; Blackwater : The Great Dismal Swamp Part II ; the whores of war; Distorting the IAEA report on Iran; Antibiotics, Evolution, and Creationism

Hang Right Politics
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: The Candidates on Illegal Immigration: Mike Huckabee; Disgrace In Cambridge; CNN - Even Libs Think They’re the Clinton News Network; Unstoppable Farce; The continual perpetuation of BDS.; Examining BDS: Is Reason The Real Enemy?

Future Majority
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: YDA Day 2: Building Consensus; CNN Gets it Wrong Wrong Wrong... Again; Obama in Iowa: Pro and Con; Blitzer You Ignorant Slut

YP4 (Young People For)
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: The Right's Attack on the Black Church; Olga Reyes: Victim of "Pro-Life" Politics; Expunge Neoliberalism; water is a human right, why is it so elusive?; Senate fails to help DREAM of immigrant students

ChronWatch
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: "No Child Left Behind" Should Be Left Behind; Pin the Noose on the Honky; FISA Football; Politics, American Style?; Success in Targeting Terrorists

Radical Left
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Clip: Fox News Porn; The Pharmaceutical Industry: Creating Mental Illness for Profit; Economy: America Is a Beached Whale; Facing Economic Collapse: Hedge Fund Managers Jump to Their Deaths; American Men Want Their Women to Be Weak; Fox News: Sex, Hamburgers & Hypocrisy; At Last! Bush Receives Treatment for His Psychotic Attacks

Politics and Christianity
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Al Sharpton, Hate Crimes, and Justice; How Did The Truth Hold Up In The Democratic Debate; NY Firefighters Considering Swift-Boating Giuliani; John McCain and the 13th Imam; Clinton Said To Have Scandalous Information On Obama; Clinton Tags Romney As A Flip-Flopper

Undernews
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: JUDGE BULLIES PARENTS OVER VACCINATIONS; NBC Fires 90% of Saturday Night Live Production Staff; HOW JOHN KERRY SWIFTBOATED HIMSELF; Obama Responds to Alleged Clinton Rumors of Scandal

Charlotte Gore
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: BBC Bring Up Dirty Campaigning; The Big Unanswered Question

Gun Legislation & Politics in New York
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Schumer’s pandering part 3; Tom Tancredo at NRA’s Celebration of American Values Conference; Police: Robber shoots himself during home invasion

Politics and Pigskins
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Ed's Sunday Sermon: Religionism vs. Deism (Part 1)

Heavy-Handed Politics
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Judicial Watch Lawsuit: No Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens; Palestinian National and Former Colombian Detective Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Support the FARC And Alien Smuggling: Jersey's Counterterror Farce

Davenetics
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: An Open Response to Halle Berry; 80s Overdrive; History Goes Through Afghanistan; Falling Out of Love; Rubber Duckies on a Fantastic Voyage; Tom Cruise and Hitler

Wonkette
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Hollywood Moguls Hate Christmas; Bob Allen Sentenced, Resigns; Karl Rove Has Advice for Obama?; Get This Look: "Hillary Does Las Vegas" Eyes; Iraq to Attack Arizona

The Decembrist
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Of Coups, Their Plotters, and the Next Era of Politics; It's All the Liberals' Fault, or Maybe George Soros's; The Pure Centrists of America / Go Crazy; The Last Refuge; Who is "Serious" About Terrorism?

Poliblog
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Yet Another Narcosub Found in Colombia; The Pending Changes in Venezuela; Court May Have Derailed Early Primary in Michigan; From the “Not all Systems of Morality are Equal” File

The Raw Story
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: TUCKER: Why isn’t Dennis Kucinich a frontrunner?; Renters are losing their homes without missing a payment; Pro-waterboarding professor: 'Sometimes torture works'; Lebanese spy to return to CIA despite lies to Gov't?; Fox's Chris Wallace: CNN debate made me 'even stupider'

Think Progress
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Kos, Rove columns debut in Newsweek.; Hume: Bush Is Bringing The Troops Home, Time To ‘Declare Victory’ In Iraq; IPCC report warns of urgent need to act on global warming. ; Coburn removes secrecy measure from transportation bill.; Bush nominates judges who donated to his campaign.

Little Green Footballs
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Jacobsen: 'Suspicious Incident' on Flight to Milwaukee; Fjordman's Obsession; US Pressuring Israel; New York Times Reveals Pakistani Nuke Secrets; Steyn: The World Should Give Thanks for America

Huffington Post
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Giuliani Jets To Campaign Stops Using Casino Kingpin's Plane; Benazir Bhutto Slams Musharraf In New CNN Interview; Another Shot Fired In NY Times Op-Ed War Over Reagan And Racism; Student Says CNN Made Her Ask Hillary The “Diamonds vs Pearls” Question

Instapundit
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: IRAN SURRENDERS IN IRAQ: I credit the new Democratic congress!; HOW YOU CAN HELP Bangladesh cyclone victims; BILL O'REILLY spotted in Afghanistan.; REP. WILLIAM JEFFERSON accused of two more schemes.

Eschaton
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Suck On This; Wanker of the Day; Rudy's Their Guy; Beautiful Loserdom; War Is the Solution to All of Our Problems

Crooks and Liars
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: The Shock Doctrine - Firedoglake Book Salon Hosts Naomi Klein; Face The Nation: Congressional Gridlock; FNS: Hume says Democrats want to lose the war; John Edwards at the Global Warming Debate

Common Dreams
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: VIDEO OF TASER DEATH SPARKS PROBE, ANGERS CANADIANS; TOP POLLUTER ALSO TOP GIVER US ENERGY CO. LINKED TO BUSH; Invaders and Allies Ignore Iraq’s Humanitarian Crisis; On the Verge of Democracy Collapse Disorder; Sudan: Civilians Driven Into Camps, Then the Bush

AMERICAblog
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: A disturbing story that only the immigrant bashers could love; Mediterranean Sea is in serious trouble; When pop culture starts dissing the dollar, we're in trouble; Dems embrace blogosphere for next year's convention, Repubs not so much

Andrew Sullivan
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Reminiscing About Mailer; Goodbye To All That; The Waterboarding Artist; The True Cost Of The War; CNN's Rigged Debate?

Powerline
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Lawyers for Fred; Israel rescues England; Barack Obama, Neocon; Blogworld, the Video;

Hot Air
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Blogging the Qur’an: Sura 9, “Repentance,” verses 6-14; Audio Bombshell: Vilsack admits SCHIP is a Trojan Horse for socialized medicine; New Jihad Watch: The Islam is Peace Campaign’s Government Angle; Videos: Hillary denies, then plays the gender card and Edwards gets booed

Captain's Quarters
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: The Swiss Option; Right Question, Wrong Questioner; Note To Post: Some Subtlety Required; Define 'Undecided'; The Altered Calculus Of Risk

Talking Points Memo
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Ted Olson makes a funny; FEMA Trailer Dwellers Seeking Court-Ordered Safety Tests; Buzzy Gives Dirt On Cookie To Waxman; Friedman envisions Obama-Cheney '08; Why Regan matters to Rudy

Jesus' General
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Fox News: Values Network for Adults Only; Department of Book Reports 42: The Sex Club; Duck Hunting with Dick and Dancing Liberally; A march, a boy, his calf, and Jesus; Glenn Beck, Commie Hunter

The Unapologetic Mexican
SAMPLE HEADLINES/STORIES FROM THIS SITE: Tucker on Bizarro Tube; You Are a Declining Empire...; Bangladesh Cyclone Kills Thousands; Overtaking the Joneses

Politics Navigator

Politics Navigator
By RICH MEISLIN
A selective guide to political sites on the Internet.

The Government
The White House
The House of Representatives
GOP.gov, from the House Republican Conference
The Speaker's News Page from the House Speaker's office
House Democrats
House Clerk's Office follows House proceedings
House Rules Committee has House rules, schedules and information on how Congress works
The Senate
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Senate Democratic Leadership
The Judiciary
Supreme Court
Federal District and Appeals Courts
Congressional Pictoral Directory Pictures of members of Congress in PDF format
Congress.org lets you find and send e-mail to federal, state and local officials.
FedWorld Information Services: Comprehensive guide to government databases
USA.gov provides access to government services for individuals, businesses and governments.
Federal Government Agencies, a clean, easy-to-use listing
Federal Web Navigator helps find government Web sites
National Governors Association
National Conference of State Legislatures
New York State Government Information Locator

Parties & Persuasions
Democratic National Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
New Democrats Online from the Democratic Leadership Council
Republican National Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
State Republican parties and candidates
Libertarian Party
International Society for Individual Liberty Extensive collection of Libertarian links
Libertarian.org More about the persuasion than the party
Reform Party of Ross Perot fame
The Green Parties worldwide and Green Party of the United States
Democratic Socialists of America
Communist Party U.S.A.
Socialist Party U.S.A.
New Party
Natural Law Party
Constitution Party formerly United States Taxpayers Party
Turn Left was the home of liberalism on the Web, but is no longer updated
The Federalist Society Conservative and libertarian thought
The Christian Coalition
National Right to Life Committee
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
Moving Ideas from a collection of liberal publications, think tanks and organizations (formerly Electronic Policy Network)
People for the American Way "Progressive" lobbying and activism (interesting information on the Religious Right in politics)
National Committee for an Effective Congress Political information, voting and finance data from "progressive" viewpoint
Campaign for America's Future advocates what it calls "progressive reform"
New Democrat Network supports "pro-growth, pro-family" Democrats
Democrats.com online community site for "progressive" Democrats
The Interfaith Alliance seeks to counter what it calls religious extremist influence in politics
American Israel Public Affairs Committee Pro-Israel lobby
The Feminist Majority
Emily's List Political network for pro-choice Democratic women
National Organization for Women
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Rifle Association
American Civil Liberties Union
The John Birch Society
The Concord Coalition aims to eliminate the budget deficit
NetAction highlights the Internet's potential as a tool for organizing and advocacy
AFL-CIO The labor perspective
MoveOn says its goal is to bring ordinary people back into politics
Political Information
The American Presidency a history of the office from Grolier Online
Ballot Access News follows efforts to get candidates on the ballot
Cato Institute libertarian think tank
Center for Public Integrity studies the impact of money on public policy
The Center for Voting and Democracy advocates proportional representation
Congressional
Guide A wealth of information on members and committees of the
105th Congress, from Capitol Advantage
Campaigns and Elections Election news and a political blog directory
CQ.com from Congressional Quarterly
Congressional roll calls from Congressional Observer Publications
Council on Foreign Relations tracks the candidates on foreign policy issues
DemocracyNet Information about and discussion of local elections and issues from the League of Women Voters
The Empire Page links to major news headlines on politics each day, emphasizing New York
Federal Election Commission data on campaign contributions
Follow the Money gives contribution information for state races
The Gallup Poll
Gotham Gazette New York City news and policy from Citizens Union
GovSpot Useful government information of all types
Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank InCongress collects information from interest groups on various issues before Congress

National Political Index links to varied political and government sites and services
OpenSecrets.org from The Center for Responsive Politics provides extensive campaign contribution information
Political Information searches 5,000 politics and policy web sites
PoliticalMoneyLine Federal Election Commission data in a more useful format
Political Science Resources an excellent international collection of links
Politics1 Information on parties, candidates and issues
PoliticsNY looks at New York politics and links to New York candidates' and officials' sites
Pollingreport.com tracks trends in public opinion from various sources
Project Vote Smart tracks candidates, officials and issues
Public Agenda provides research on major issues in a nonpartisan manner
self-gov.org offers a quick test of your political leanings
TownHall.com Conservative news and information
Voter and registration demographics from the Census Bureau
Vote.com from Dick Morris and friends lets people "vote" on public issues
Political Media & Commentary
The Atlantic Policy & Society from the Atlantic Online
C-Span Program schedules and TV/radio feeds
Commentary
eVote, with news and features, says it "keeps score in the Great Game of Politics."
Fast Politics links to political news from many sources
Foreign Policy The venerable magazine of international politics
The Hill Capitol Hill news
National Review Online
The New Republic Online
Roll Call Online Capitol Hill news
Salon politics
Slate, Microsoft's magazine of politics and culture
Public Opinion
RealClear Politics summarizes the latest political polls

News Organizations
ABC News
CBS News
The Los Angeles Times
Minnesota Poll from the Minneapolis Star Tribune
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
The Washington Post

Private Organizations
Gallup Poll
Ipsos Market research, advertising research and public opinion
Kaiser Family Foundation
MORI Market research organization in Britain
Pew Research Center
PollingReport.com
Public Agenda Nonprofit public opinion and policy analysis organization founded by Daniel Yankelovich and Cyrus Vance
The Tarrance Group's Battleground Polls
Zogby International State Polls
Arkansas Arkansas Poll, University of Arkansas
California Field Poll
Connecticut Quinnipiac University Poll
Minnesota Poll Minneapolis Star Tribune
New Jersey Quinnipiac University Poll
New York Marist Institute for Public Opnion
New York Quinnipiac University Poll
Pennsylvania Quinnipiac University Poll

Academic Organizations
Council of European Social Science Data Archives
Member Archives
The Eagleton Poll at Rutgers
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
National Annenberg Election Survey from the University of Pennsylvania
Odum Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Program on International Policy Attitudes
Racial Attitudes in America from the University of Illinois at Chicago
Roper Center at the University of Connecticut

-->Maintained by Rich Meislin. Revised 3/29/07.