As a political science student I am tad ashamed to say that I don’t read Political Science blogs. If asked to name my favorite blog I would say Perez Hilton, though I don’t think his updates on the Kardashian’s qualify as American politics per se. So sorry for being a week behind here, but I had to read quite a few political blogs to figure out what kind of styles I liked and disliked.

After googling ‘Best Political Blogs’ and stumbling upon ajherra’s page listing dozens of blogs I began reading through some by category. I came to quickly discover that the partisan type blogs (conservative, grassroot, Democrat) were ones that I disliked. The Blog called Little Green Footballs is a conservativist political blog that links all issues to football jargon which ends up testing my knowledge of the sport and not so much informing me of each post’s purpose. In addition to the author’s football jargon I find that he writes in a very informal manner that again takes away from the effectiveness of portraying the message. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/

One political blog that I found stylistically appeasing was a blog called ‘Fivethirtyeight’, designed by a journalist of the NY Times to help readers of the journal sift through articles by condensing them into simplified to-the-point blogs. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ 
I found that I preferred his non-partisan perspective on the posts on the upcoming 2016 presidential election, and the recent election of the new Pope. His writing is straight-forward, explicit with no subtle metaphors or tangled-American-partisan views making posts easier to peruse through. Though I don’t have a big interest in election mechanics, I found the author, Nate Silver’s, accounts of the papal elections and projected American elections basic and simple and thus able to hold my attention.