NPR: Weekend Edition Sunday Announces New Political Blogs

Weekend Edition Sunday Announces New Political Blogs

Never a bad time to talk about new NPR political blogs.

Weekend Edition Sunday is launching a new feature, Sunday Soapbox. It's the Web companion to the show's political coverage.

Here is what Davar Ardalan, supervising senior producer, has to say about the blogs.

"We are fortunate to have 3 fantastic experienced bloggers from different persuasions on-board to send us blogs regularly - both text and audio and soon video. Mindy Finn served most recently as Director of eStrategy for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign, Faye Anderson is a citizen journalist and blogger and new media consultant. She shares news information and trends that resonate with African American voters, and Joshua Levy is a web strategist whose work explores the intersections of technology politics and activism. He is Associate Editor of Personal Democracy Forum and TechPresident, two websites that cover how technology is changing politics, and is a frequent commentator on the use of the web in the 2008 election."

There are two posts available now. Mindy talks about why Sen. John McCain has the momentum right now. (Her thoughts on how online media have changed the dynamic, and ensured McCain coverage during a peroid when he might expect nothing, are eye-opening.)

Josh looks at online trends versus offline polls. While polls can give you one measurement, new online tracking tools can give quite another. For instance: "Despite Clinton's slight lead in the polls in Pennsylvania, Obama's Yahoo Buzz score there is 78% to Hillary's 19%. This means that among online voters searching for a Democratic candidate, folks are looking for Obama by a measure of roughly 4 to 1 -- about the same as Compete's FaceTime findings."

Meanwhile, Faye is in Philadelphia and will be doing some blogging for Weekend Sunday in the days leading up to the April 22nd Pennsylvania poll.

Thoughtful stuff.

Davar says she plans to ask readers to send in questions when the show plans to interview prominent political figures. So let'em know what you think.

6:38 PM ET | 04-19-2008 | permalink

Comments (Send a comment)

Lots of us political bloggers out here who haven't been connected to campaigns.

PunditMom
http://punditmom1@blogspot.com
http://momocrats.typepad.com

Sent by PunditMom | 4:13 PM ET | 04-18-2008

Awesome, more venues to spread my evil, hateful conservative poison. Mr Rove is gonna get a big bill this month!

Sent by deek | 4:22 PM ET | 04-18-2008

Deek,
Is there any more room on the Rove payroll? Do you get paid by the word or by the post?

Sent by Maddie | 7:03 AM ET | 04-19-2008

Maddie, it depends. You need a paypal account though.

Sent by deek | 11:32 AM ET | 04-20-2008

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