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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-10 04:41 AM
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Poligraft: See the Corruption Behind the News
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GOOD Blog > Andrew Price on August 10, 2010 at 2:30 pm PDT
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We all know politicians take money from companies and other interest groups, but it's sometimes hard to connect those contributions to what happens (or doesn't happen) in Congress. Now, thanks to a brilliant online tool called Poligraft, you can see the webs of influence behind the news.

Poligraft lets you paste in a URL to a news story or a chunk of text. Then it digs through the names in the text, finds politicians and organizations, and shows you who's given money to whom in a sidebar. The tool was developed by the Sunlight Labs, using information from the Center for Responsive Politics and the National Institute for Money in State Politics.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-10 09:24 AM
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1. awesome tool -- thanks for posting it! n/t
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-12-10 09:43 AM
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2. Amazing! Big k/r. nt
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