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Left-leaning bloggers:

Sean-Paul Kelley, The Agonist; Michael Shaw, BAGnewsNotes; Liza Sabater, CultureKitchen; Greg Dworkin, Daily Kos; Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny!; Cheryl Contee, Jack And Jill Politics; Robert Farley, Lawyers, Guns And Money; Steve Soto, The Left Coaster; Barbara O'Brien, The Mahablog; Taylor Marsh; Ellen Brodsky, News Hounds; Chris Bowers, Open Left; Mark Kleiman, The Reality-Based Community; Tracy Viselli, Reno And Its Discontents; Lee Papa, The Rude Pundit; Matt L. Barron, RuralVotes; David NYC, Swing State Project; Big Tent Democrat, TalkLeft; Maegan la Mala, VivirLatino

Right-leaning bloggers:

Dan McLaughlin, Baseball Crank; Betsy Newmark, Betsy's Page; Bob Parks, Black And Right; Bookworm, Bookworm Room; D.S. Hube, The Colossus Of Rhodey; Doug Lambert, GraniteGrok; Robert Miller, JoshuaPundit; Soren Dayton, The Next Right; Jon Henke, The Next Right; Walter Olson, Overlawyered; Steven Taylor, PoliBlog; Michael van der Galien, PoliGazette; Debbie Hamilton, Right Truth; John Hawkins, Right Wing News; Rob Port, Say Anything; David Gerstman, Soccer Dad; David Kopel, The Volokh Conspiracy