Andrew Golis

You can see on the homepage of TPM right now a big Google map with a TPM header on it.  Tomorrow at 6, it will start streaming election results at you.  You can follow the presidential race, the senate races and the house races at the national, state, or local level.  That’s right, you can watch elections results stream into your favorite swing state county by county.  This is why someone on an email list I’m on today said “Andrew Golis is the Stringer Bell for political junkies.”  I GOT THAT WMD! (Go watch The Wire and be ashamed of yourself if you don’t get the reference.

I explain the map on a TPM vid today:

You can see the map at TPM. It looks like this:

Update: Good LORD!  Can’t keep up w/ NBC.  They’re going to imprint a map on the Rockefeller Center skating rink.  Show offs.

From NJL:

Two top sites for political junkies, FiveThirtyEight and Talking Points Memo, have announced their October stats, and they’re astounding. To put them in context, I’m inserting them into E&P’s list of top newspaper sites’ unique-visitor totals for September. (October numbers for the newspapers won’t be out for a couple weeks.)

New York Times: 20.07 million unique visitors
Washington Post: 12.96 million
USA Today: 11.44 million
LA Times: 10.02 million
Wall Street Journal: 9.05 million
Boston Globe: 8.61 million
San Francisco Chronicle: 5.13 million
New York Post: 4.82 million
Politico: 4.61 million
Chicago Tribune: 4.56 million
New York Daily News: 4.44 million
Dallas Morning News: 3.78 million
Chicago Sun-Times: 3.68 million
FiveThirtyEight: 3.63 million
Houston Chronicle: 3.40 million
Talking Points Memo: 3.12 million
Newsday: 3.05 million
International Herald Tribune: 2.94 million
Washington Times: 2.41 million
Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News: 2.33 million
Seattle Times: 2.26 million

As they go on to note, it’s not apples to apples because the newspaper #s are for September and ours and 538′s are from October (political sites ramp up, etc.).  I would also note that my experience shows that #s from folks like Nielsen and Comscore are really terribly wrong, and in TPM’s case at least consistently underestimating.  If thats’ true, this comparison is probably unfair to the newspapers twice over.

BUT STILL.

• ProPublica seeks $1M to put everyone’s documents online
  ProPublica wants to fund a big doc dump. Good use of $$, smart journalism. NYTs API meets Sunlight Foundation.
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He reports 23 million pageviews from 14 million visits.  Pretty awesome for a guy with an assistant and a few interns.  

He deserves it.  Sullivan is consistently the freshest, more entertaining blogger in the country.  He and his team find a lot of fun stuff, and, as is evident in his piece on blogging in last month’s Atlantic, he’s truly mastered the medium.

Congrats to him and the good folks over at The Atlantic.