Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Divisiveness
Tired of the Red/Blue state thing yet? If not, here's more: BuyBlue.com is a campaign to encourage Democrats to buy from companies that haven't given huge campaign contributions to the Republicans. Interested in which companies those are? Their Blue Christmas page has the lists. Turns out there are a lot of familiar names on both but some really big ones in the Republican column; think Wal-Mart, Penney's, Sears, Target, Amazon....(Nordstrom, Starbuck's, Whole Foods on the other side). Fascinating. (Via Lynne)
For more, the OpenSecrets Website from the Center for Responsive Politics has the data. They have an open letter on their site saying they are not behind an email going around supporting political shopping. But you can use their site to get more data on who gives what to whom, and lots more about political finance. posted by liz at 6:15 PM
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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