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Ask Me Anything feature continues to roll along, and this week, it's my turn. Since 2011, I've been Daily Kos's political director, which makes me responsible for the site's elections coverage, candidate endorsements, race ratings (this cycle's coming very soon!), and, when our budget allows, polling.
On a day-to-day basis, I run the section of the site known as Daily Kos Elections, which you can find linked just below Flag Guy in the banner up above. Every weekday, I put together something called the Live Digest (here's Friday's), which is essentially a liveblog of all the day's horserace news: who's in, who's out, what do the latest polls say, who's endorsing whom, which Republicans made us laugh, which Democrats made us want to hold our heads in our hands, and much, much more.
In the evening, I reorganize the Live Digest into the Morning Digest, which gets published on Daily Kos the following morning, at 8 AM ET on Elections and 8:30 AM on the main page. (Here's Friday's, meaning it's a wrapup mostly of news from Thursday.) The Morning Digest also goes out as an email newsletter to over 10,000 people at 8 AM each; you can sign up to receive it in your inbox here.
Daily Kos Elections is by no means a one-man band, though—far from it. Several other folks are very involved with the site's day-to-day operations, including David Jarman, Steve Singiser, jeffmd, James L, and Arjun Jaikumar. Our comment boards are also home to a thriving sub-community of elections nerds, many of whom migrated over from the Swing State Project, the site I ran in my spare time before Markos hired me. Plenty of folks have also joined in since SSP transformed into DKE, so we welcome any and all horserace junkies!
Speaking of the gang, several of us will be participating in an elections Q&A panel at Netroots Nation a week from tomorrow, so if you'll be attending the conference, please drop by to ask us about your favorite races. Or you can do so here!
P.S. You can also find Daily Kos Elections on Twitter as @DKElections.
2:11 PM PT: Okay, folks! This has been a lot of fun, but I'm gonna sign off for now. I'll stick my head back in later in case any stragglers show up. Have a great weekend!