Arkansas:

Political Cartel is an excellent academic-level political blog maintained by several individuals in Searcy, Arkansas.

http://politicalcartel.com

DC ignored again.

DC Watch and Loose Lips are good. Kojo Nnamdi and Marc Plotkin.

Illinois: prairiestateblue.com

jhawk1025,
Blue Tide Rising is a good Kansas blog, admittedly better than my Making Kansas Count, which is a work in progress. As a resident of Lawrence, Kan., I would not call myself an MTV poser.

Note on South Dakota: Badlands Blue, like Jon Lauck's daschlevthune back in 2004, is a paid campaign blog, in this case funded by the Tim Johnson Senate campaign and (purportedly) the South Dakota Democratic party. One major difference: Jon Lauck was actually from South Dakota; most of Badlands Blue's content is written by Lowell Feld from Virginia. Only a couple weeks ago did Badlands Blue add a permanent South Dakota reporter, Tyler Smith. It seems a bit... premature to label this paid, mostly out-of-state blog as one of the best "South Dakota" blogs.

But what do I know? I'm just a South Dakota Democrat who reads real South Dakota blogs:

dakotawarcollege.com
thunewatch.sqaurespace.com
southdakotapolitics.blogs.com
dakotatoday.typepad.com

from folks who write because they love South Dakota, not because someone's paying them.

You really, really ought to include Blue NC from North Carolina -- Under the Dome is great, but it's a newspaper blog. http://bluenc.com/

Hey, you missed a good site in Wyoming:

www.jhunderground.com

Based in Jackson, the new Democratic stronghold of the Cowboy State.

Attention black America there is a war going on in the media against our views and opinion's.This is evident when you see how FOX NEWS,CNN and MSNBC have covered Rev. Wrights comments. It is a fact that a lot of black people agree with Rev. Wright and when the media call him wrong or crazy they are disrespecting our views, it is a same how the black opinion is disrespected by the white media. Rev Wright comments have not been disproved and to shun them without investigating its truth, is stupid and unreasonable. The media in this country is against blacks. Everyday on t.v the media disrespects us.

MORE

Some in the democratic party has also disrespects black Americans. People like the Clinton's have bamboozled us for years well in the words of BARACK OBAMA not this time!! Its time all truth fighters come together and join the black out vote movement tell the Democratic party that if they rob OBAMA after he has won more states and votes then we will not vote for Hillary Clinton. For more information listen to WARREN BALLENTINE Mon to Fri on WERE the people station 1490 from 10AM to 1PM.ET

Indiana:
http://hoosierpundit.blogspot.com/

Kentucky:
http://bluegrassredstate.blogspot.com/

thanks so much for including my site with the new york blogs. however, i should point out that i've never heard of "the albany report", though that listing is linked to my site, "the albany project."

For West Virginia political blogs, West Virginia Blue (http://www.wvablue.com) is equally deserving. It's a political group leftie/liberal/progressive blog with several new items on most days.

For Utah I'd recommend:

One Utah - www.oneutah.org

Pursuit of Liberty - www.davidmiller.org

Simple Utah Mormon Politics - http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/

J.M. Bell - www.jmbell.org

The World, According to Me - bobaagard.blogspot.com/

There is also the Utah Bloghive (www.utahbloghive.org) that gathers feeds for all the political blogs in the state and divides them into various grouping (i.e. left and right leaning, vague, media, pols, etc)

Mike - I suggest you check the site and see what the project is really about. It is an MTV News/Associated Press/Knight Foundation project, which is entirely unaffiliated with any of the MTV programs most people are aware of.

Most of the Street Team members are 18-35, with the average member probably around 25 years old, and most of us have a background in journalism and/or video production.

We're not the "bro" people you're talking about. Though, your flagrant use of condescending language and discriminatory "insults" makes me wonder if you're capable of differentiating between partisan punditry and accurate journalism.

By the way, the "rock the vote" campaign is not related to our project in any way.

Keep rocking the vote, "bro".

Democracy is like, totally cool dude.

Alaska:
http://community.adn.com/?q=adn/blog/24417

That's nice Mike.

Say, do you have Mr. Brown or Mr. Johnson for 7th grade social studies?

MTV is gay.

Jhawk - your comments are entirely unneeded.

The MTV Street Team is a group of completely unaffiliated young journalists that have virtually no ties to MTV or Viacom. I know, I'm part of the project and would have never accepted the job if it included any corporate insider ties. We are "one-man/woman bands" who create, shoot, edit, produce and upload our stories with zero/zip input from MTV. The only thing they check is the legality and accuracy of our stories.

Basically, so long as we aren't endorsing illegal or highly immoral activities, our stories are a product purely of our imaginations.

If you want to check out the actual Web site, I strongly urge you to go to the following sites:

www.chooseorlose.com
or
www.streetteam08.com
or
www.think.mtv.com

We all welcome criticism but calling us "MTV posers" is not really accurate in the slightest. We are independent contractors who contribute our material to MTV - we aren't even MTV employees. Feel free to check out the site and scan the profiles and stories - you might be surprised what you find.

what about DC? No respect. . . .

'could it be ?? - a job so shallow and repulsive, it fits drindl to a Tee.'

just can't stop thinking about me... man, you have a sad 'life.'

Blogging is by nature anecdotal - does that mean blogs have less value - not necessarily - but it does require more thought from the reader. From Missouri...............
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/04/01/anecdote-stoking-flames-of-conversation/

Here is a better one for Kansas, one that is actually in kansas and not an MTV poser.

(http://bluetiderising.blogspot.com/)

Here's a really good article about Obama's associations:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/four_stumps_in_the_water_for_o.html

could it be ?? - a job so shallow and repulsive, it fits drindl to a Tee.

no offense CC.

Please don't use the word "embed" around a clinton. they are very particular about the meaning of words.

nclwtk asks
"Is there anything at all that we really dont need to know?"

I don't know.

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Pundit Nation is a good one from Wisconsin: http://punditnation.blogspot.com/

If for no other reason than to keep your list ideologically balanced.

Louisiana:
CenLamar - http://www.cenlamar.wordpress.com

Utah:
Wasatch Watcher - http://www.wasatchwatcher.com

Wyoming:
Hummingbirdminds - http://hummingbirdminds.blogspot.com

Is there anything at all that we really dont need to know?

Hawaii:
http://poinography.com
http://www.hawaiiankingdom.info

"sign me up!"

General Drindl

Indeed. And that is why the democrats look like they will win- they get it, McCain and Co. have some work to do with regards to this online medium:

Obama vs Clinton vs McCain -
a Web Comparison:

http://newsusa.myfeedportal.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=76

These Statistics matter. No, they do not say who is voting for whom. That is done on election day, alone. But it does show us what certain, important segments of the population are thinking- in virtual real time.

Dems not the only ones interested in the power of bloggers. It appears that the military wants to do a little propagandizin...

"Noah Shachtman at Danger Room finds a 2006 report written for U.S. Special Operations Command that suggests ways the military should deal with the blogosphere. One suggestion is for the military to hire bloggers to "pass the U.S. message":

Information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence...to pass the U.S. message. ... On the other hand, such operations can have a blowback effect, as witnessed by the public reaction following revelations that the U.S. military had paid journalists to publish stories in the Iraqi press under their own names. People do not like to be deceived, and the price of being exposed is lost credibility and trust.

An alternative strategy is to "make" a blog and blogger. The process of boosting the blog to a position of influence could take some time, however, and depending on the person running the blog, may impose a significant educational burden, in terms of cultural and linguistic training before the blog could be put online to any useful effect. Still, there are people in the military today who like to blog."

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/report-recruit.html

This is quite possibly the least interesting piece of news I've ever heard.

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