Congratulations to Barack Obama, soon to be our 44th President and a man who had made history this week by becoming the first person of African-American descent to be elected to chief executive of the nation.
With the end of the 2008 Presidential Campaign comes the time to wrap up what has been a wonderful partnership between the Media Bloggers Association and Newsweek. We joined together to produce "The Ruckus", a group blog for bloggers covering the 2008 Presidential race.
For the past year, MBA member bloggers have provided readers a cutting-edge perspective on politics at Newsweek.com. We were fortunate enough to have had a great group of bloggers, each contributing fascinating insights during one of the most historic elections in the history of the United States. Thank you to each of them for their contributions to Newsweek's campaign coverage.
We began the campaign season with bloggers in key primary states: Adam Fogle in South Carolina at The Palmetto Scoop, Dean Barker in New Hampshire at Blue Hampshire, Chris Woods in Iowa at Bleeding Heartland and nationally known bloggers including John Amato and his folks over at Crooks and Liars, Joe Gandelman and his hyperactive bloggers on The Moderate Voice, Oliver Willis at his eponymous blog OliverWillis.com in DC, James Joyner outside DC at Outside the Beltway, Faye Anderson in New York at Anderson@Large and Ed Morrissey at Captain's Quarters.
As the campaign shifted we added Jeralyn Merrit and her crew in Colorado at TalkLeft, Brian Leubitz in California at Calitics, David Oatney in Tennessee at The World According to Oatney, Greg Palmer in Pennsylvania at Keystone Politics and Jill Zimon in Ohio at Writes Like She Talks.
Throughout we had the support of Carl Sullivan and Mark Coatney at Newsweek.com and behind the scenes making things work were Alex Yuriev of Zubr Communications and Colin Hill at Scoop Host.
Our goal was to provide Newsweek readers a convenient sampling of some of the best political blogging from across the country and from key primary states. I think readers will agree that our bloggers delivered. The Ruckus became a fascinating window into all the exciting discourse and discussion that is taking place on political blogs today.
We hope you enjoyed reading the bloggers as much as we enjoyed bringing them to you.
Robert Cox
President
Media Bloggers Association
http://www.mediabloggers.org
