Cell Phone Effects

on opinion pollling. Note the key demos

No Grammy Likely

Jack Davis for Congress: "Brand New Man"

Polls 101

A good reminder of what to watch out for when looking at election-season polling.

Polarization?

More here.

Polarization?

Sheer Breadth of Fluff

From, of course, The Onion

Negative Ads, Democratic Primary Edition

Article here, from CQ

Religion and Support for McCain/Obama

from Gallup

Matt Drudge Rules

their world

Movements without Barricades?

Online Activists vs. Obama

Where Does the Money Go?

Click here for more interactive goodness

"Self-Segregation or Deliberation?"

"Blog Readership, Participation, and Polarization in American Politics," by H. Farrell, E. Lawrence, and J. Sides. ABSTRACT:

There is active debate among political scientists and political theorists over the
relationship between participation and deliberation among citizens with different political viewpoints. Internet based blogs provide an important testing ground for these scholars’ theories, especially as political activity on the Internet becomes increasingly important. In this article, we use the first major dataset describing blog readership to examine the relationship between deliberation, polarization and political participation among blog readers. We find that, as existing theories might predict, blog readers tend to read blogs that accord with their political beliefs. Cross-cutting readership of blogs on both the left and right of the spectrum is relatively rare. Furthermore, we find strong evidence of polarization among blogreaders, who tend to be more polarized than both non-blog-readers and consumers of various television news programs, and roughly as polarized as US Senators. Blog readers are also substantially more likely to participate in politics than non-blog readers. However, in contrast to previous research on offline social networks, we do not find that cross-cutting exposure to blogs of different ideological dispositions lowers participation. Instead, we find that cross-cutting blog readers are about as likely as left wing blog readers to participate in politics, and that both are significantly more likely than right wing blog readers to participate. We suggest that this may reflect social movement building efforts by left wing bloggers.

Read the full paper HERE

Running for Clinton's Third Term?