Day: May 6, 2008

Electionjournal.org, Twitter, and Indiana

Electionjournal.org has people on the ground in Indiana reporting on incidents at polling locations across the state.  The site makes interesting use of Twitter.   Twitter basically makes anyone with a cellphone or a blackberry into an on-the-spot reporter/eyewitness, whose messages can be instantly read by others.  Here, EJ has found alleged incidents of campaigning in polling […]

Outside Groups Examined

CQ takes a look at outside groups, noting the increasingly baroque efforts on the part of big-money interest groups to keep a step ahead of the regulators by developing elaborate methods to move funds around and target key races. In particular, interest groups are shielding their activities by taking on new nonprofit designations intended to […]