the makeout hobo

Quick question for all you conservatives. While I am a progressive, I like to read conservative blogs when I get the chance. It's good to get perspective. However, most of the right wing blogs I stumble across, like Michelle Malkin or redstate, aren't really what I'm looking for. They're more culture war than strategic, and what I really want is a good conservative blog that focuses on discussing election strategies and the roll of the base, stuff like that. Two left wing blogs that I love, for example, are openleft.com and mydd.com. I'm looking for a conservative mirror of those sites. Anyone got suggestions?

And I know this is a less likely question, but does anyone know a right wing FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right This site is probably my favorite blog at the moment.

Thanks!

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niftydrifty

don't know if these will speak to exactly what you're looking for, but these are mostly right leaning blogs, and seem to be the better ones to me. the powerline guys are nuts, of course, but it's nonetheless important to check out what they're saying.

The Volokh Conspiracy - -

Professor Bainbridge

danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: Blog

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Instapundit.com

» Outside The Beltway | OTB

Althouse

The Corner on National Review Online

JustOneMinute

Unqualified Offerings

Winds of Change.NET

-THE CUNNING REALIST-

Power Line

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on a personal note, my favorite blogs are

Matthew Yglesias

and

Media Matters - Altercation by Eric Alterman

(both left leaning)

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RightinNYC

I'm the same way, it frustrates the hell out of me but I check on kos and DU every so often just to get an idea of what's going on over there.

Here's a couple I like, I'd agree with you on not being able to stomach some of the more out there ones like FR, etc.

Instapundit.com

Libertarian-ish law prof blogs about everything.

www.volokhconspiracy.com

Bunch of right-ish leaning law profs blog mostly about law stuff, but it's related to politics.

Politics, Political News, Campaign 2008 - Politico.com - Politico.com

Has great news articles, and several blogs on the dem primary, the rep primary, congress, politics, the media, etc. good stuff there.

rasmussen is independent, but it's my absolute favorite site for polling.

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