The ICYouSee Guide to Campaigns and Elections

A spare listing of sites covering news and viewpoints. Below the fold: Polls | Roll Call Votes |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. Maddowblog [Steve Benen, mostly]
5. Vox – founded by Ezra Klein
6. Politico – Republican shill or of liberial bias?
7. The Week – online it is daily
8. Kevin Drum – from Mother Jones
9. Talking Points Memo – blogger journalism
10. Real Clear Politics – with a spectrum of links
11. The Root – a Black perspective
12. Washington Monthly's Political Animal
13. Axios – founded by Politico renegades
14. The Guardian – British perspective
15. Funny and fierce Charlie Pierce
16. Daily Beast
17. Intercept – "adversarial journalism"
18. Common Dreams for progressives

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
• Newsweek
• Time
• US News & World Report
• Bloomburg

Rightwing and Libertarian

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

Faith Based (Some more political that others)

• Aljazeera
• Tablet – Jewish
• America – Jesuit
• Brody File – CBN
• Rachel Held Evans
• Christian Left

• AP News
• CNN
• ABC, CBS, NBC
• NPR, PBS
• Reuters
• BBC
• USA Today
• McClatchy
• Huffington Post
• Salon
• Slate
• CSPAN

Independent/Progressive

• TruthDig
• Counterpunch
• TruthOut
• AlterNet
• ThinkProgress
• In These Times
• Democracy Now
• Bill Moyers

Political Cartoons

• Tom Toles
• Cagle Post

Polls and House/Senate Votes

Polls

• Real Clear Politics Latest Polls
• HuffPost Pollster
• Sam Wang's Princeton Election Consortium
• FiveThirtyEight: Politics
• Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Roll call votes in the US Congress

• Congress.gov's Roll call votes and more resources
• Office of the Clerk of the House
  for floor proceedings, and roll call votes
• U.S. Senate: Roll Call Votes
• Govtrack has a lot of information,
  but I find it difficult to find what I'm looking for

Media Watchdogs | NYS Voter Guides

• AllSides
• PoliFact
• Annenberg Center's FactCheck
• Media Matters for America
• FAIR
• Daily Howler
• Right Wing Watch
• NewsBusters (liberal bias watch)
• Mediaite
  

• The Green Papers: New York
• New York State Board of Elections
• New York State League of Women Voters
• Ballotpedia: New York
• Some local county boards: Tompkins, Seneca