IP Democracy: C-SPAN and CQ Launch Campaign Web Site

The idea seems like such a natural that I’m amazed it has taken this long to become reality: C-SPAN, in conjunction with Congressional Quarterly, is launching a web site devoted to the current elections. Called CampaignNetwork.org, the site is a pretty good-looking and sophisticated portal to all kinds of campaign related news and items, particularly video content. The video content pops up in an unobtrusive small, but still-viewable, RealPlayer in a way that I haven’t seen before.

CampaignNetwork.org has TV ads, C-SPAN event coverage, election scorecards, debates, news from the campaign trail, analysis from CQ’s reporters and an election forecast map (which, unless I’m reading it wrong, is forecasting that the Republicans maintain their majorities in both the House and Senate, an assessment that runs counter to much of what I read.)

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on September 5, 2006 12:51 PM to IP Democracy