(cross-posted at dailykos)

Check out this new online search tool we are offering to the progressive community: It's called ThinkingBlue Search (http://www.thinkingbluesearch.com), and it is a google-powered custom and focused search engine.

ThinkingBlue Search is currently covering about 470 web sites, including:

every major progressive blog that discusses politics and policy (over 200 of them and adding more daily), every major progressive think tank (over 40 of them), every major official Democratic web site including every single local State party website (about 70-ish of them), every major liberal political journal and magazine in print and online (over 25), most of the major progressive syndicated columnists (right now just over 20 and growing), most of the progressive watchdog groups (also about 20 at the moment) and lastly, it also searches the early progressive political wikis that exist (about a dozen or so).

..and we're adding sites daily.

In the race for the seat of outgoing Republican Representative Henry Hyde (IL-6)... All of  the Dem candidates would be light years better then their Republican opponnent but one of these Democratic candidates -- Lindy Scott -- is running a campaign that really warrants attention.

The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Scott, 53, is a political newcomer, but he said he has been writing about politics and economics for more than 20 years. An evangelical Christian, he said he hoped to "bring people of faith back into the Democratic Party" and worte that "on 80% of the issues I believe Evangelicals and other Christians would fit comfortably in the Democratic Party," Scott said, listing public education, the environment, health care, Social Security, foreign relations and immigration."

In a time when Democrats are struggling to speak to authentic progressive political and social issues but also do so in a way that can speak with crediblity using a moral and religious framework...this candidate in this race could be very important. Very worth your support.

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