Journalism today is, in a word, garbage. Utter trash like this abounds: http://www.politico.com/...
Because of this, freeping remains very important. For those who do not know, freeping is the organized taking of polls by a likeminded community of people, so as to make sure the results are favorable and any "news" stories that arise from these polls reflect positively on the positions the community favors.
We had a somewhat decent showing in 2008 but since then I believe little attention has been paid to poll freeping, and we really need to address that as a community.
Ideally, we would have a widget type feature on DKOS that would make freeping easy for us. In lieu of that, perhaps a well-recommended diary post with links that continually update.
While anyone is free to use this diary for that purpose, ideally a freep operation post would be actively maintained and continually updated within the body of the main post. I do not have the time to perform that function. But a freep organization post that just updates in comments is better than nothing.
We need to get on this, this is a trench fight. We cannot yield any ground here.