Lots of great discussion here which I’m not reporting on because there’s too much, but Dan Newman’s MapLight.org intersects my interest in the miscellaneous, so I’ll mention it here. It lets you slice, dice and — most important — associate information about who’s contributing how much to whom and how that correlates with actual votes (CA only). For example, trying playing around the bill that would have required bottled water to meet the same health standards as tap water. (It lost.) [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous maplight politics sunlightberkman ]

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