The ICYouSee Guide to Campaigns and Elections

A spare listing of sites covering news and viewpoints. Below the fold: Polls | Media Watchdogs & Voter Guides

Top Sites for a Daily Fix of Campaign Politic
Blogs, Ezines, and online version of political newspapers and magazines

1. T. Goddard's Political Wire – horse race coverage
2. Daily Kos – first place many lefties head
3. New York Mag's Daily Intelligencer
4. Real Clear Politics – with a spectrum of links
5. Huffington Post: Politics
6. Maddowblog [Steve Benen, mostly]
7. Vox – founded by Ezra Klein
8. Politico & its Playbook
9. The Week – online it is daily
10. Kevin Drum – from Mother Jones
11. Talking Points Memo – blogger journalism
12. The Root – a Black perspective
13. Washington Monthly's Political Animal
    
14. Salon: Politics
15. Slate: News and Politics
16. Axios – founded by Politico renegades
17. The Guardian – British perspective
18. Common Dreams for progressives
19. Funny and fierce Charlie Pierce
20. Tom Toles – best editorial cartoonist today

Daily News and Views

• Washington Post [IC only]
    PlumLine | The Fix
• New York Times [IC only]
• The Atlantic: Politics
• New Yorker: News & Politics
• The Hill [IC only] & Roll Call [IC only]
• American Prospect [IC only]
• Harper's
• WSJ
• Chicago Trib & LA Times

Independent Press

• TruthDig
• Counterpunch
• Intercept
• TruthOut
• AlterNet
• ThinkProgress
• In These Times

• CNN
• ABC, CBS, NBC
• Daily Beast/Newsweek, Time
• NPR, PBS
• Reuters
• BBC
• USA Today
• McClatchy
• USNews & World Report
• Bloomburg
• Democracy Now
• CSPAN

Rightwing and Libertarian

• The American Conservative's blogs
  
• Reason's Hit and Run
  
• National Review's The Corner

Polls

• Real Clear Politics Latest Polls
• HuffPost Pollster – including favorability ratings
• Sam Wang's Princeton Election Consortium
• Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight: Politics
• Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball (UVa)
• 270 to Win
• TPM Polltracker
• Polling Report
• FrontloadingHQ
• Predict Wise

Media Watchdogs | NYS Voter Guides

• PoliFact
• Annenberg Center's FactCheck
• Washington Post's Fact Checker
• Media Matters for America
• FAIR
• Daily Howler
• NewsBusters (watching for the liberal bias in the media)
• Mediaite
  

• The Green Papers: New York
• New York State Board of Elections
• Some local county boards:
  Tompkins, Cortland, Seneca, Schuyler, Chemung, Cayuga, Tioga
• New York State League of Women Voters