After a couple of years of being heavily addicted to the US presidential campaign, I’m already beginning to feel a little nostalgic for the time spent endlessly flicking through the websites that helped feed my habit. While none of these will be particularly new to many people/addicts, here is a little list of some of my favourite websites I’ve been heavily using:

• Memeorandum has been the main supplier of my needs - a constant river of the most read news and opinion from the makers of Techmeme, from the rabid right all the way through to the paranoid left.
• 538 has been a fantastic new site that parsed the various polls, and made projections of its own. Created by baseball statistic geeks, it has been widely quoted and used everywhere in the media and even had its creator on the Colbert Report.
• Andrew Sullivan, a US-based British conservative who supported John Kerry and now Barack Obama has long been an invigorating thinker on issues of what it means to be of the Right.
• Twitter’s US Election page has been an amusing, if not actually very useful insight into the endless gibberish that spouts from the minds of the Twitterverse.
• The Corner is a great insight into the primarily hardcore neo-conservative mind.
• The Huffington Post has been a great resource of mainly Democratic points-of-view.

There have been endless others, but these have been my main sources. And to think… just another couple of years and I’ll be interminably flicking through these yet again.

By Andrew Fox on Tuesday, 4th November, 2008 at 10:01 am