Spend election night with the Chronicle
Tomorrow is Election Day, and reporters at the Chronicle will be working late, waiting to hear the local and statewide results after the polls close at 8 p.m. The website will be open late too,...
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GeoPollster provides a little Election Day Foursquare fun
If you happen to be a Foursquare user, you might like this little Election Day feature. A site called GeoPollster is using Foursquare check-in data to see which party has control of which state. In...
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Montana political blog under new management
Bloggers Jay Stevens and Matt Singer at the Montana political blog Left in the West are hitting the bricks. Stevens announced his departure in a Nov. 3 post to the blog, and Singer gave his notice a...
View ArticleMSU poli-sci faculty start politics blog
Faculty members from the political science department at Montana State University have started a blog to analyze state, local and national politics, the university announced this week. “We hope the...
View ArticleMontana Republicans discover Twitter
My wife, who has been following news about this year’s legislative session with gusto, pointed out the above-pictured Facebook posting to me this afternoon: Republicans take note! This article...
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Get your own hashtag!
Well, since everybody at the Montana Legislature discovered Twitter a couple weeks ago (even Republicans), the #mtleg hashtag has become rife with partisan tweets. So, reporter Emilie Ritter started a...
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Parody Twitter accounts surface in Rehberg-Tester senate race
Image via CrunchBase I can already tell that the coming election season is going to be a fun one. After all, in addition to the normal slate of scandals and issues, candidates on both sides of the...
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Montana Secretary of State launches site to streamline election law violation...
Update: Terri McCoy called over the weekend to clarify one issue about the complaints received from the 2010 reporting program. I wrote that 45 submissions lacked enough info for the secretary of...
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Do newspaper endorsements matter?
On Sunday and again in today’s paper, the Chronicle published on its opinions page the paper’s political endorsements for this election year. The first set of endorsements covered statewide races, such...
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The quotable Brian Schweitzer
The website Roll Call published an entertaining interview with former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer today that’s making the rounds online. Judging by my past experience with Schweitzer on the handful...
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