Politics1 website closing down

Politics1.com ^ | December 10, 2005 | Ron Gunzburger

[Clintonfatigued]

Website founder Ron Gunzburger says other priorities give him insufficient time for popular website.

[Clintonfatigued]

I don't agree with his views, but he had a good website. Hopefully, a conservative (perhaps Freeper) can pick up the slack by founding his or her own election website.

[Poser]

Yawn!

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I didn't agree with his politics, either, but it was an excellent resource for following congressional and state races.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I'd often check his website, too, and wasn't so bad (his personal opinions aside), though the comments section were often a little too "out there." I can certainly sympathize with Ron, having to work full time, maintain the website (accumulating the stories and keeping abreast of candidates and websites, all of which isn't that easy), and then have enough time for yourself. I'm a contributor to "The Political Graveyard" and know the man who operates it (a liberal Dem officeholder in Michigan), and having to do all the updates and checks with a database of well over 100,000 names is overwhelming (too much of the problem with Ron and Larry Kestenbaum (the TPG owner) is that they are the only ones that do the actual day-to-day operation. Having several people working on them would tend to remedy these problems of owner burnout and "lack of creativity" as a result.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"I don't agree with his views, but he had a good website."

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I thought the website went down the drain when he started his blog. It was great when he merely posted election news, and back then it didn't have that much liberal bias. But the state pages in which he listed all of the officeholders and candidates, with links to their campaign websites and to other pertinent sites, will be sorely missed.

[fieldmarshaldj]

...and don't get me started on those nutjob ad sponsors. I think the biggest reason Ron is folding up the tent is one he didn't openly cite... and that was the loss of Kerry.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"I think the biggest reason Ron is folding up the tent is one he didn't openly cite... and that was the loss of Kerry."

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Well, he did say that he was "finding it very hard these days to see humor in the sad state of American politics." So he didn't openly cite it, but Kerry's loss---and perhaps more importantly, the overwhelming passage of marriage protection amendements in states across the nation---were mentioned covertly in his litany of excuses.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Hey, well, maybe he could take the lead from one of his blogad sponsors and move to the wunnaful Great Fudgepacker North, the anti-Christian and anti-American utopia. He is right that it is sort of a sad state of politics here in America... but the problem is that it is of his fellow liberal comrades' doing.