Chatalas Shrugged

Blogs Keeping Up with Big Media Coverage So Far

Popular political blogs Talking Point Memo and Political Wire are being cautious in their tone, but exit polls and numbers from the states where polls have closed are indicating Obama is looking good in crucial state Virginia and close in Indiana. Political Wire says it has lots of numbers, but is taking them with a grain of salt at this point; however, if the numbers are accurate, “battleground states will probably be called much earlier than expected.

Both these sites have great maps where you can zero in on a county to see the tallies as the votes are counted. These rival that which we see by the big media sites like CNN and MSNBC. And as of now, I see nothing on the big guys’ sites that I don’t see on TPM and Political Wire in terms of results and information.

Meanwhile, hardcore liberal blog Daily Kos says Virginia is a done deal for Obama… and not even close. Oops… it just changed… too close to call after all. That’s obviously an overly enthusiastic blog at the moment.

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