"That blog isn't called Smart Politics for nothing."
- POLITICO
"Smart Politics is by far the best Minnesota political blog.
I check it every day and encounter much good information
and analysis that I can get nowhere else."
- Steven E. Schier
Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon
Professor of Political Science
Carleton College
While this blog may occasionally make attempts at injecting wit and wryness into our discussion of politics, our name, Smart Politics, is not intended to be playful or oxymoronic. Smart Politics is a blog that reveals a zeal for politics, devoid of cynicism and rants, and replete with provocative non-partisan analysis of important trends in policy and how they impact candidacies in the new election cycle.
Smart Politics is keenly aware of the glut of political blogs, but we are able to offer something unique: as a wing of the Humphrey Institute’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Smart Politics is armed with the largest on-line collection of Upper Midwestern polling and historical election data from which our analyses of pressing policy concerns and intriguing campaign matchups will be drawn.
Smart Politics is guided by the following principals:
For those of you who are fascinated by Smart Politics, please be sure to visit the Center's 2006 Elections Project website under our ‘links’ section, for complete reports, historical election and polling data, and candidate profiles.
Thank you for visiting Smart Politics, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Comments
I like the idea of your blog, and I see you have been successful with this for a while. I just started up one of my own, but it's not as extensive as your site. Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Marksman | July 30, 2008 8:47 PM