Election 2008

Big Pharma's Health Care Reform Playbook

by Sheldon Rampton — March 19, 2008 - 1:37am

"Congress' ability to curb the explosive rise in drug costs is a bellwether of the political prospects for health care reform," writes Merrill Goozner.

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Gooz News, March 13, 2008

Citizen-Driven Superdelegate Transparency Project Provides Best Superdelegate Reporting - Anywhere

by Conor Kenny — March 6, 2008 - 4:21pm
  • Topics: Superdelegates 2008, Citizen Journalism, Election 2008, Democracy

    • The motley crew of citizen journalists, activists, bloggers and transparency advocates that make up the Superdelegate Transparency Project (STP) have produced the best, most transparent and highly detailed reporting on the Democratic superdelegates - anywhere. Through collaborative research with nearly 300 citizen journalists, the folks at DemConWatch, LiteraryOutpost, the HuffPost's OffTheBus project, OpenLeft and CMD's Congresspedia have produced a tally that rivals or bests those of the major media outlets. The STP even breaks the numbers down by state and congressional district with ever-expanding bios of hundreds of superdelegates AND we now have a wicked-cool live-updating widget.

    Featured Participatory Project: Join Huffington Post Readers in More Superdelegate Muckraking on Congresspedia

    by Conor Kenny — March 5, 2008 - 10:21am

    As part of the ongoing collective research project on Congresspedia to track the "superdelegates" who may decide the Democratic nominee for president, our partners at the Huffington Post have enlisted hundreds of citizens to research some of the more obscure party officials in the ranks of the superdelegates.

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    Superdelegate Transparency Project on Congresspedia

    Barn Raising Day for Superdelegate Transparency

    by Sheldon Rampton — February 20, 2008 - 9:00am

    Since the Superdelegate Transparency Project launched on Congresspedia last week, dozens of people have helped flesh out the facts about the so-called "superdelegates" whose votes may determine whether Hillary Clinton or

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    Congresspedia's Superdelegate Transparency Project

    Unspinning the U.S. Elections

    by Diane Farsetta — February 13, 2008 - 12:10pm

    The Center for Media and Democracy is contributing biweekly radio reports on politics and spin to "Election Unspun," a daily news show put together by Pacifica Radio and Free Speech Radio News.

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    Election Unspun, February 13, 2008

    Featured Participatory Project: Tracking the Superdelegates in the Democratic Primary

    by Conor Kenny — February 13, 2008 - 12:03am

    As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama run neck-and-neck in the Democratic primary, a "brokered" convention is possible where the Democratic delegates cut deals and shift sides to give one candidate the threshold they need to gain the party's nomination.

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    Congresspedia's Superdelegate Transparency Project

    AAEI - How Democrats Took Over and Betrayed the Peace Movement

    by John Stauber — February 9, 2008 - 8:32pm

    Matt Taibbi analyzes how "Democrats have surrendered to Bush on Iraq and betrayed the peace movement for their own political ends." He faults the MoveOn-led Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, "a political tool for the Democrats -- one operated from inside the Beltway and devote

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    Rolling Stone, February 21, 2008
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