User:John Broughton/U.S. House 2006

List of seats of interest:

Washington Post

Wikiproject House Elections 2008
Draft: User talk:John Broughton/Wikiproject Notable races for the House 2006 How to set up: WikiProject Council/Guide

Cat for each article (nowikied sample):

List of ALL 2006 House campaign articles with that category: here

Possible invitees

 * - edited Michigan 8th congressional district election, 2006 after I set it up.
 * Kim Wolfe - W.Va 3rd - not a notable race - editors: (who voted in AfD),, , , author: ;
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 * Those who edited at:
 * Candidates and elections
 * United States House elections, 2006
 * United States House elections, 2006 complete list
 * Diana Irey: her AfD:, , , , and her article: ,

Resources

 * Resources:


 * Robopolling - 2006 House seats:


 * Alternative newsweeklies. Local newspapers with searchable archives, such as St. Petersburg Times (Bilirakis).


 * Help:Enhanced recent changes for tracking changes to pages within the project.

Pombo v. McNerney, 2006
Here's the story of a $25K grant for a demo project:

So, the U.C. Berkeley School of Journalism is building the demo project, but as of 10/4/2006, NOTHING appears to be up, with the election just a month away:


 * Actually, here's the (internal) blog on progress - so things are happening, but slowly:
 * (Checked on 10/26 - last posting was 10/15 - I'm guessing that they have essentially given up having a website up before the election. I suspect they've given up having anything done before the election.  I've not seen anything actually stating that they would, be it always seemed a reasonable presumption.

What's particularly interesting is the volunteer/citizen aspect, plus the idea of building a "template" for use in 2008.