Politico.com covers political news with a focus on national politics, Congress, Capitol Hill, the 2008 presidential race, lobbying, advocacy, and more. Politico.com's in-depth coverage includes video features, regular blogs, photo gallerie...
This site's mission is to accumulate and analyze polling and political data in a way that is informed, accurate and attractive. 538 aims to give you the best possible objective assessment of the likely outcome of upcoming elections. Founded...
Useful, but most everything needs to be read with a grain of salt (or two, or three, or...). I never take any story here at its face. Instead, I use the site as a springboard to search out topics on the Washington Post, NPR, and other more reputable news organizations.
Huffington Post: Useful web site for researching the far left's more extreme viewpoints. The site does a good job of illustrating the hypocrisy of the democratic political hacks and the biased media. But it is not a site that is easily digested on a regular basis.
A snake in the grass: Informative, brilliant political commentary and news coverage from people I often heartily agree with virtually guaranteed the Huffington Post my five star rating... but only until I discovered its dark side - blog posts on health issues that recommend various forms of quackery (enemas for swine flu?!) without a shred of evidence that they work and aggressively push the "vaccines cause autism" propaganda despite numerous scientific studies in many countries that disproved that claim. Beware who you trust.
My Daily News Portal: Since one year I am Huff faithful follower of this blog. Interesting, reliable, sometimes funny but always great and indispensible.