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Daily Digest, 2/16/07

BY Joshua Levy | Friday, February 16 2007

The Web on the Candidates AbsentCongress.org is keeping tabs on the voting records of 2008 presidential candidates in the Senate. According to the site, Sam Brownback has missed more than half of his Senate roll call ... Read More

Daily Digest: 2/15/07

BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, February 15 2007

Ben Smith of The Politico reports that a new Hillary-obsessed website, JustHillary.com ('It's All About Her"), has launched. It chronicles its editor's obsession with Clinton and, by extension, the media's obsession as ... Read More

Daily Digest: 2/14/07

BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, February 14 2007

A Rightwingnews.com poll suggests that Duncan Hunter has gained significant new support among the conservative netroots. Newt Gingrich was the most popular potential candidate, followed by Hunter and Mitt Romney. Chuck ... Read More

Daily Digest, 2/13/07

BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, February 13 2007

Blaming "Bill Donohue and his calvacade of right wing shills," embattled blogger Amanda Marcotte resigned from the John Edwards campaign yesterday. Is Marcotte a casualty of the boring-down of campaign bloggers? Daniel ... Read More

Hillary's BlankSpace?

BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, February 12 2007

What happened to Hillary Clinton's friends on MySpace.com? A day ago, she had about 22,000; now her site lists only 12,177. For a couple of hours today, if you tried to go to http://www.myspace.com/hillaryclinton2008, ... Read More

Daily Digest, 2/12/07

BY Joshua Levy | Monday, February 12 2007

Social network scholar Fred Stutzman takes a look at Barack Obama's new social networking site and how all candidates should view social networking sites: "Companies like Youtube and Myspace succeeded because they ... Read More

The Daily Digest: 2/9/07

BY Joshua Levy | Friday, February 9 2007

John Edwards decided not to fire bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen for things they wrote before he hired them, receiving acclaim from the left and the right, respectively. "This is all being made up as we go ... Read More

The Daily Digest: 2/8/07

BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, February 8 2007

The progressive blogosphere has been waiting with baited breath for news about the fate of John Edwards' bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen after they were criticized for writing anti-Catholic slurs before ... Read More

2008: The Daily Digest, 2/3/07

BY Matt Ortega | Saturday, February 3 2007

TPMCafe's Election Central has video highlights from six possible Democratic presidential hopefuls from the Democratic National Committee's Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C. Among the official, exploring, or rumored ... Read More

2008: The Daily Digest, 2/2/07

BY Matt Ortega | Friday, February 2 2007

Jake Tapper, senior national correspondent for ABC News, has a series of web videos outlining the historical racial insensitivities of presidential aspirant, Senator Joe Biden (D-DE). Copies of Senator Hillary Clinton's ... Read More