“Barack Obama has taken a major step towards becoming America’s first black president by winning the Iowa caucuses in a stunning victory that left Hillary Clinton, the presumed front runner, languishing in third place.” And in the year marking the 40th anniversary of MLK’s death, kind of appropriate.

If you like following the US election, you’ll love this:

“We are happy to announce the launch of  Wonkosphere.com, a free web service which helps you stay on top of the 2008 U.S. Presidential Race. Wonkosphere tracks over 1000 political blogs and web sites to provide timely and unbiased analysis of the 2008 Presidential race. Wonkosphere measures the buzz share and tone for each candidate every four hours, and highlights the most representative and influential posts. Crawdad’s patented text analysis technology provides the engine behind Wonkosphere.”

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Analysing the Bush team’s words after 9/11
A previous blog post on this blog which also references a report from Crawdad Technologies, who produce Wonkosphere.