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Left-leaning bloggers:

Sean-Paul Kelley, The Agonist; Dean Barker, Blue Hampshire; Kari Chisholm, Blue Oregon; Brian Leubitz, Calitics; John Amato, Crooks And Liars; Greg Dworkin, Daily Kos; Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny!; Robert Farley, Lawyers, Guns And Money; Barbara O'Brien, The Mahablog; Taylor Marsh; Ellen Brodsky, News Hounds; John Blevins, Obsidian Wings; Chris Bowers, Open Left; Mark Kleiman, The Reality-Based Community; Lee Papa, The Rude Pundit; Matt L. Barron, RuralVotes; Susie Madrak, Suburban Guerrilla; Big Tent Democrat, TalkLeft

Right-leaning bloggers:

J.R. Hoeft, Bearing Drift; 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; Michael van der Galien, PoliGazette; Debbie Hamilton, Right Truth; Rob Port, Say Anything; David Gerstman, Soccer Dad; David Kopel, The Volokh Conspiracy