RealClearPolitics
Summary
RealClearPolitics is a non-partisan political news and polling data aggregator based in Chicago, Illinois. The site's founders, Tom Bevan and John McIntyre, say their goal is to give readers "ideological diversity." They have described themselves as frustrated with what they perceive as anti-conservative, anti-christian media bias, and while some have suggested the column selection is conservative-leaning, the site includes columns and commentary from both sides of the political spectrum. The site also compiles averages of major political polls on various elections throughout the United States to give a national view of the race.The site was founded in 2000 by former options trader John McIntyre and former advertising agency account executive Tom Bevan.
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CQ Roll Call Continues Digital Expansion With New Blogs
Since Economist Group properties CQ and Roll Call merged in November 2012, slashing staff and tearing down its online paywall, RollCall. com claims a 67 percent increase in unique visitors. Now, with its print advertising shrinking, the new CQ Roll Call is trying to continue to up its digital game by launching five political blogs, each attached to one of the newspaper’s big-name contributors.
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Data, uncertainty, and specialization: What journalism can learn from FiveThirtyEight’s election coverage
Nate Silver’s FiveThiryEight blog at The New York Times really only does one thing: It makes election predictions. But it does this differently than pretty much everyone else, because it aggregates all available polls using a statistical model calibrated with past election data. He has his critics among the political class, but to my eye, it makes pretty much all other election “horse race” coverage look primitive and uninformed.
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Infographics, live Internet radio and TV: the new gadgets, projects and play things may point the way
Sometimes I get serious blowback concerning my obvious distain for replica editions. I try not to be dogmatic about it, understanding that sometimes a replica may be the way to go. The problem, though, is that the replica should be exception to the rule, not the rule.
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Need Video Ad Inventory? Visible Measures Says it Can Help
With Web publishers—particularly those with traditional media roots—desperate to capture more online revenue, Boston-based video analytics firmVisible Measures is offering these companies a way to add sponsored content to their sites without taking up valuable advertising or content space.
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For its 2012 elections coverage, MTV swaps out citizen journalism for gamification
Nearly 17 million Americans have reached voting age in the four years since the last presidential election cycle. This year’s pool of youth voters includes 46 million people in the United States, according to the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. But the youth vote is notoriously elusive.
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Why Jonathan Alter, Joe Conason columns were virtually identical
The Wall Street Journal James Taranto noticed that a Joe Conason column published yesterday in Real Clear Politics was “very nearly identical” to a Jonathan Alter column published April 19 in Bloomberg.
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Scott Brown's Wife: He's 'Not Just The Regular Chocolate'
Visit the "Why I'm Running" section of Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass. ) campaign website, and you find out that he is a "regular guy. ".
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Newt Gingrich's Candidacy Continues To Hurt Santorum, Unless It Helps, In Which Case, Never Mind
Former Speaker of the House and current presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich has only managed to win two contests thus far in the primary season, and this week he failed to advance his "Southern Strategy" any further when he lost Alabama and Mississippi to rival Rick Santorum. And for all practical purposes, that should have been that.
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Conservative Radio Host Offers Obama $50,000
Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin has offered to donate a large sum of money to a super PAC supporting President Obama if the President will agree to debate him.
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Santorum Promises 'Bold Reforms'
WASHINGTON--Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum made his pitch for "bold reforms and major restructuring" in the leading U. S. business newspaper on Monday, one day before primaries in Michigan and Arizona.
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