I did a pretty deep search on some of the more problematic ones and didn't dig much up. A lot of these folks suck, but they don't come with scandals.  The weak stories are the best you're likely to get (but please prove me wrong someone), so grab a blog for the ones that aren't strong enough.

There are plenty of stronger stories targeting Roskam IL-06 and Hastert IL-14 than the ones you have here.  These are lame.

I didn't get this in fast enough, but I'd say that Jim Ryun buying a house from Tom Delay/Jack Abramoff PACs for $120,000 less than market value is probably better for KS-2.

http://cjonline.com/stories/052106/loc_r yunhome.shtml

FWIW, my blog about the event is probably more comprehensive regarding the Delay/Abramoff backstory.

http://jgrr.blogspot.com/2006/04/ryuns-h ouse.html

I'm torn on using blogs.  On the one hand, people will likely gloss over them, but on the other hand they often have info that isn't around elsewhere organized in a digestable way.  Might be better to only do 50 or howevermany districts than throw blogs up there.  But on the other hand, what better opportunity to promote local blogs right?

p.s. are we sure, when linking to blogs, that they'll be able to handle whatever traffic increase gets thrown at them?

Thanks for suggesting my site as a google bomb, but I would suggest not google bombing Ray Meier with take back 24, the author of that blog spends more time bashing Mike Arcuri than Ray Meier.

Eh, the one for Fitzpatrick ain't so great. Here's one (hat tip to a friend of mine) that works better:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1 11-01222006-601349.html

I thought the story you had on Michael Steele was ok, but somewhat weak.  This ABC News report seems to me to be a bit harder hitting.  Steele is one who doesn't so much have scandals as controversy.  He says and does foolish things, not illegal things.  

NY-29 should say "Randy Kuhl" not "Eric Massa."

And I wouldn't use TakeBack24 for NY-24.  It's a communist blog that attacks Arcuri as much as it attacks Meier.

I'm not sure the one on Cathy McMorris is all that damning, i.e., how many points does she really lose for failing to throw Jim West under the bus quickly enough.  The two sentences in the article that refer to her make her come across as compassionate, at least from where I'm sitting.

The Chafee link simply takes you to the RIfuture blog (a fine blog, but not what you seem to be looking for). I recommend Harold Meyerson's "The Moderate Republican Scam" in the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092601138. html

It might be subtle, but I think it would be more effective to use a local PA version of the AP story (it's the same text) than the national ABC News version:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/2 8-10162006-727801.html

I'm just thinking that people might be less inclined to disbelieve what seems like a local report than one form a national news org. (Even though they're the same article.)

So I like the Harper's story, not least because I like Harper's magazine. And I admit that the Phoenix New Times isn't out-and-out damning. Harper's also has the nice phrase "ethically-challenged Republican Congressman Rick Renzi."

However, I'm skeptical that voters in AZ-01 (my district), a rural, generally libertarian district, will put much stock in what Harper's writes. Truthfully, I don't think either of these articles is as negative as we'd like (neither captures Renzi's angry tirade on the floor of the House). But I think voters might be more inclined to believe the AZ paper, and one that isn't known as necessarily liberal (at least to the extent that Harper's is).

Then again, what about just using the YouTube video?

I wonder if YouTube might have some gems to use in some of the other races that don't have great articles?

The article on Kyl takes a long time to get to the bad stuff about him (at the end).  That's good stuff though.

However, it omits mention of his false "live" congressional testimony that Justice Stevens called him out for in Hamden.

Slate covers that in good detail.  It's just the one incident, but it does show his dishonesty and willingness to influence the courts to rule against freedom.

On the downside, Time rated him one of the 10 best senators.  Not linking to that one, for fear of raising's it's google profile...

  This one talks rather definitively about her relationship with Bob Ney, and actually talks about why Bob Ney is bad company.  I think it's better than the one you have.  It's also a local newspaper, and an article unto itself.

http://www.sharonherald.com/local/local_ story_263230124.html?start:int=0

The linked article isn't so much negative about Negron, but it's about how any new Foley news will hurt him.

This is better because it actually discusses his record, including his stance that he would have tried to have Terri Schiavo kept alive against court orders if need be.

He also would support 10 commandment displays at courthouses.

It's not scandalous per se, but he's uber conservative and voters should not be fooled that he's just a mainstream republican.   Actually he is, but their impression of a "mainstream" republican probably isn't as extreme as this guy.

His FL state district was much smaller than FL-16.

  Surely we can better than randomly linking to raisingkane.  This article does a good job of summing up the series of Allen scandals.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/2 6/politics/main2039589.shtml

here's an alternate article on steele, on a fundraising appearance with rove, from teh WaPo...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2005/07/26/AR2005072601340. html

i think the stem cells = holocaust story is better, though.

I posted a link on the google spreadsheet for a devastating New York Times editorial.  It is available for free without Times Select, and is a far more thorough, substantive, and acerbic critique of Pombo's legislative priorities than the current article (which details some relatively minor Abramoff/Pombo links).

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/opinio n/30sun1.html?ex=1161662400&en=c2ba4 b7e9d699df7&ei=5070

Here's one quote from it:

This is, in short, a sleazy piece of work, written by a man who appears to be able to conceive of property rights as something that only a private individual or a corporation can have; a man who betrays no awareness that the American public has a shared right in the refuge and the national parks and the millions of acres he wants to sell to developers.

Mr. Pombo's only idea, and it is a terrible one, is to treat this nation the way he treats his Congressional district, as if it were ripe for exploitation.

I think we can do better on ID01, Bill Sali. The currently linked article is an overview of the race in general, and it tries to be balanced. Sali could be seen as either an extremist or a quirky conservative populist who fights for what he believes in, depending on the reader's point of view. It does mention Sali is disliked by many other Idaho politicians, but that isn't the focus of the article and isn't discussed until about halfway through the article.

I think rather than this, we want an article that is wholly negative, and one that highlight's Sali's idiocy.  I think I found one at:

http://www.idahoptv.org/idreports/showEd itorial.cfm?StoryID=21140
(Idaho Public Television, April 12, 2006)

It does a great job of making Sali look like a nut.  It highlights the "that idiot's just an idiot" moment, and talks about Sali making other State Reps burst into tears and leave the House in protest. It also mentions other moves Sali has made that have hurt the pro-life movement, and suggests he will continue to make such moves.

The article suggests that Sali is almost a Manchurian Candidate, who is so insane about pro-life views that he will hurt the pro-life movement.  In my opinion, that's a good thing for us to tell voters, because it will turn off both prolife and prochoice voters, if for different reasons. A prolife voter won't want a crazy man to set back their issue, and would probably rather vote Grant or not vote at all than vote for Sali. A prochoice or even moderately prolife voter will be turned off by Sali's extremism, and again will vote Grant or not vote at all. A win-win situation.

Mark Kirk voted with the GOP majority to intervene in the Schiavo case.

However, I'm having trouble finding a non-partisan link that makes that point...

The best I can find is a column by Neil Steinberg in the Chicago Sun-Times that's incidental to Kirk, making the point that Kirk voted to intervene in the Schiavo case:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/8 2291,CST-NWS-stein04.article

Here's a semi-local blog post making the point:
http://blueandwhite96.blogspot.com/2006/ 10/mark-kirk-reliable-ally-of-president. html

A comparison of Seals/Kirk by the National Jewish Democratic Council:
http://www.njdc.org/takeaction/detail.ph p?id=563&sub=4

Here's a positive background on Seals:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/pr e-election/bios/51634.html?SITE=OKTULELN &SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAU LT

The article you found is a good one.  Here's another that might be a good contender:

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/10/cracks _in_gop_base_may_spell_t.html

The CQPolitics site has a comment thread attached.  The exact same article appears in the NYTimes without comments:

http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2006/10/16/cq_ 1640.html

Ridenbaugh Press hints that a new ID-01 article may be in the works at the WaPo:

http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2006 10/21/faith-based

Here's a professional but damning article in the San Jose Mercury news (from the AP):

Title: Rep. Doolittle paying lawyer to talk to DOJ in Abramoff probe
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryne ws/news/local/states/california/northern _california/15775037.htm

Here's a harsh editorial against him the Sacromento Bee:

Title: Editorial: A debate reveals much, alas, about Doolittle
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/39198.ht ml

(should read NY-29 Kuhl, not Massa)

The link we have goes to the frontpage of a blog, not very specific or damaging to Kuhl.

Kuhl's Wikipedia link
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Kuhl# Personal)

is a much better link to google-bomb.  It's got his divorce record allegations (he pulled a shotgun on his wife...) and cites that he was arrested for drunk driving. I have it scroll the page to the section about those scandals when you click the link.

I haven't found any more specific links than that, but the wikipedia article should do ok, especially if it jumps right to his personal section.

i think you could find worse stuff on Pombo pretty easily, e.g.

"Foe of Endangered Species Act on Defensive Over Abramoff"
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me- pombo14feb14,0,5428082,full.story?coll=l a-home-headlines

What we desperately need right now is a legit article specifically talking about Randy Kuhl and the shotgun craziness.  We don't have it right now, and all I can find are blogs.  There must be an article somewhere, if anyone can find it.

It's good to see that after a few years now, "Spreading Santorum" is still #3 on his google search:

http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/

Maybe we should just link to that and push it up to #1 again.....  

We have a collection of news stories over at KeystonePolitics.com on the federal campaigns. There's a link at the top of the site for "US House" and "US Senate". Please feel free to stop by and look for anything that fits your criteria. Also feel free to link directly to the news article rather than to KP.

I would gladly do a piece on John Doolittle - I can have it today, should you desire.

Great Article on Mike Ferguson For a "values" voter, it is pretty damning, I don't think we can do much better then that.

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Something to consider: do you want to use the nicknames or full names of these candidates?

Given that you're targetting uninformed voters, they may be more likely to search a candidate's full name.
( Sorry to sound so penny-ante, but obv. we'd all like to get max. effect.)

Right Wing News is organizing a counter-Googlebomb campaign.

Here's the link.

http://www.rightwingnews.com/archives/we ek_2006_10_22.PHP#006659

Taking their helpfully organized list, I dug up the links for our side to counter theirs.

You can see my list at the bottom of http://www.crewstopia.com (use "View Source" to get the HTML code, which you can then cut-n-paste into your page).

was the same story reporting by any corporate media source?

The listed link is to a letter to the editor.  Fine, but not nearly as juicy as this florida newspaper article about his opponent, Klein, calling on Shaw to return the 30K of Tom Delay money has has not returned.

That's probably the best one, but for reference there is also a secret cheney visit which fucked up traffic, and the DCCC has a scathing page on the guy.

A quick suggestion when you put together the list of articles.  It would be great to know exactly where the articles rank before we started "recommending" them to google as great articles.  i.e. The rolling stone article would have been the 8th article on page two (number 18 overall)

And then as time moves along, give us updates.  (AZ-Kyl: We just moved our article from the 18th choice up to number 5.  Lets see if we can get it to number 3 by the weekend)

I think it would give great motivation to see the before and after effects of the google "Recommending"  (I also think you should change the terminology to google recommending so that it sounds less ominous than Googlebombing)

Two suggestions for CT-02, but both are Courant ed board editorials (NB: Courant endorsed Simmons in 04; not now!)

Hartford Courant endorsement from this weekend. Not sure if you want to use endorsements, but this endorsement of Courtney clearly lays out the anti-Simmons case:
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc- courant-early-endorse,0,1548075.htmlstor y?coll=hc-utility-news-politics

Budget Bill an Embarassment: a great Courant editorial that quotes Simmons saying he didn't read the budget bill (but only available through pay subscription, it seems)
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/acce ss/978860481.html?dids=978860481:9788604 81&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type= current&date=Jan+29%2C+2006&auth or=&pub=Hartford+Courant&edition =&startpage=C.2&desc=BUDGET+BILL +AN+EMBARRASSMENT

I diaried it here with a couple of screen captures:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/23/171 616/56

Who are we appealing to? If dems, then the Florida recount history is important. Sweeney doesn't really believe in democracy per se. He's more of a mob-ocracy and plutocracy kind of guy. Search for his name in the Salon.com write-up on the 2000 election mess:

http://archive.salon.com/politics/featur e/2000/11/28/miami/

The guy's a thug, plain and simple. People around here who grew up with him say it, and his behavior at the recount and his disturbing reaction to this election challenge just bear it out.

Just my two cents.

Here's a Hartford Courant story on Nancy Johnson and how she lobbed inaccurate information at her challenger in response to an attack add.  

http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-nastyads.artoct14,0,3408195.story?coll=hc-headlines-home

I think you picked the wrong one.  This one http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/2878 02_reichert06.html is so much more important as it is a myth-buster.  Please reconsider.

The local paper, the Winston Salem Journal has endorsed the Democrat in the race - Roger Sharp.

The paper has not been a fan of Foxx. Here are some links...

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satell ite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_Basic Article&c=MGArticle&cid=11491912 87817&path=!localnews!localgov!& s

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satell ite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_Basic Article&c=MGArticle&cid=11491912 87817&path!localnews&s=10376455 09099

and the endorsement article...
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satell ite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_Colum nistArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149 191159615&path=%2Fopinion