What I'm working on

I've seen quite a few emails talking about how we can have an influence in the 2008 election, so I thought that I would share a few links and resources that I have either found or created to help us become effective movers and shakers.

The 2008 Race Tracker is a wiki site where people are posting information on all of the high level races like House, Senate and Governor:

http://www.2008racetracker.com/

The site is sponsored by the Swing State Project and DailyKos.

The Left.Wikia site is where I am collecting information on what races are happening:

http://left.wikia.com/

This is similar to Wikipedia, and also similar to dKosopedia, but there is the capability to create sortable tables and a few other things.  I'm the lead admin there and on Campaigns.Wikia as well.  Campaigns is a place for candidates and grassroots campaigns to collaborate and share.  Mike Gravel's campaign is using it, and Ron Paul just set up his own.

On the 2008 House election page, you can sort by any of the columns.  Sorting is not perfect, but if you hit the sort button by the 2006 result three times, the list will come up in a specific order showing which Republican candidates got 100% of the vote, then descending down through the ranks to the Democrats who got 100% of their vote.

If you want to look more local, you can see the list of 2008 races that will be happening here in Washington for the Legislature.  This is also sortable, and combines the House and Senate races into a single table.  We are one of the few states where the boundaries of the Legislative District elections match for House and Senate, so that makes it easy to organize.

I've also been working on a list of county officials that are up for election over the next few years, and I need help collecting that info.  Election Result formats are not consistent around the state.

So, there is a lot that we can do to help turn the US and Washington more progressive.  And this is just the electoral activism that we can do.  Whatever we can do locally statewide, nationally or beyond, as long as we are all pushing and pulling in the same general direction, the tide will turn.

Chad