Posted on 06/04/2007 12:34:38 PM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
What follows aren't complete reviews of these sites and everything each has to offer. These are only reviews of their community discussion forums. I tried to stick to sites running traditional forum software, like phpBB and vBulletin, as opposed to comment blogs, with a few exceptions here for notorious blogs like Daily Kos, Huffington Post and Free Republic. Here you'll find forums on the left, forums on the right, and forums in the middle.
Thanks to everyone who took time to build forums and recruit members. Your efforts have helped foster debate.
1. Whistle Stopper Political Forums
Membership: mixed
2. Democratic Underground
Membership: left
3. Bartcop Nation
Membership: left
4. Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Membership: left
5. The Huffington Post
Membership: left
6. Political Crossfire
Membership: mixed
7. Political Forum
Membership: mixed
8. Debate Politics Forums
Membership: mixed
9. Free Republic
Membership: right
Simple but effective blog layout with comments posted on daily news items. Militantly territorial community, impatient with strangers, particularly left-leaning ones, but very active community. The "Freepers" are notoriously aggressive in print. If you're not ultra-conservative and you're aching for a fight, you'll find one here. The site excels as a breaking news source as well. Just know that you'll catch hell from the locals if you aren't ultra-conservative or libertarian. You've been warned.
10. U.S. News - Political Hotwire
Membership: right
11. Politics Forum (.org)
Membership: mixed
12. U.S. Politics Online
Membership: mixed
13. George Bush Forums - Topix
Membership: mixed
14. Democracy Forums
Membership: left
15. Political Forum - It's All Politics
Membership: mixed
16. 4Forums
Membership: mixed
17. Revolutionary Left
Membership: left
18. NoPC Forums (Nation of Political Conservatives)
Membership: right
19. Defending the Truth
Membership: mixed
20. Liberals Only
Membership: left
Bah. Robots...
Note also the mention of the DUmp as being “huge”. If posts-per-thread statistics are any indication, FR is at least 10 times the size as the DUmp.
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