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Top 5 Political Magazine Websites' Campaign Blogs
With last night’s DNC wrap-up and this morning’s Republican VP pick announcement fresh on our minds, min decided to look at political magazine websites' campaign blogs for this week’s top 5 list. Of course, there are more campaign blogs out there than min could ever have time to count, so what we looked at were political campaign blogs written by the editors of a political magazine or poltical magazine's website. Enjoy our top 5 picks.
2. Economist.com: Democracy in The editors’ blog style is very similar to their reporting, but with the appropriate amount of opinion and humor mixed in. Don’t expect to find any “Omg”s or triple exclamation points here…or on any of these top 5 blogs. But you will find things like minute-by-minute commentary on Obama’s acceptance speech here.
The 32 year-old Chicago-based magazine has built up their site in the past few years and their political blog on their website stands out because of the frequency in which the editors post (8:24, then another post at 8:26, another at 8:27, etc.).
Minneapolis-based independent publication Utne Reader extends its forward-thinking ideals to the website and specifically, their political blog. It stands out mostly because of the amount of links and multi-media content woven into the text. Features Archives COMMENTS
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