The Daily Background

A quick reminder and some notes about ongoing projects. The following on-site projects have just been updated:

• Iraq Civil War Watch
• The “Who opposes Iraq troop surges” list

Other active projects include our dual Handicapping the 2008 Republicans and Handicapping the 2008 Democrats features, which both have overview information about each prospective candidate, with emphasis on their weaknesses.

I also wanted to take a second and give a quick plug to some other coverage I’ve been doing on the 2008 Presidential election. Recent coverage other than the two “Handicapping” features mentioned above, include the following recent posts on individual candidates.

• Rudy Giuliani’s got primary problems
• Strategy talk: Presidential announcement timing (emphasis on John Edwards)
• More on announcement timing (emphasis on Barack Obama)
• om Vilsack on The Daily Show
• The document Mitt Romney doesn’t want you to see

Speaking of Obama, I recently wrote a series of posts with excerpts from his recent book The Audacity of Hope, which you can find here.

One off-site project that I’ve been actively lending my participation to is the 2008 Race Tracker wiki, run by Swing State Project. It’s shaping up to be a really great resource, with information about Senate, House and Gubernatorial races in 2008 in every state. The idea is, you sign up for a free account (it takes about 12 seconds) and then you can enter information about races in your state and in other states. It’s already very useful and it’s growing in usefulness literally every day. Pitch in, lend a hand, it’s very gratifying.

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