New Congressional Candidate Tracker

Today we're excited to announce a new way to keep track of everyone running for Congress. And you can help!

The RaceTracker project on the OpenCongress Wiki tracks every election for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and state governor.

For every state and district (including yours!), you can find info about candidates and their status, campaign contributions they've received, district maps, past election results, and more.

Best of all, RaceTracker is free, open-source, non-partisan, and collaborative. Add what you know to the wiki, citing a news source, and help build public knowledge about Congress. Check it out ::

Project:RaceTracker

... to dive right in and see an example, here's the page for Sen.
Roland Burris (D-IL), whose seat is up for election in 2010 and for
which eight candidates are already in the mix ::

IL-Senate_Class_III_Seat

... for more information on how you can use RaceTracker and how to get involved, please see today's announcement on our blog ::

Blog

Finally, if you haven't taken a look at our Wiki in a while, it's worth checking out the new info that the public and our editors are continually adding to pages for Senators and Representatives: official contact information for their offices (both in D.C. and in their districts), Congressional scorecards from issue-based groups, video announcements & floor speeches, narrative summaries of hot votes, and more ::

Open Congress Wiki Home

... hope you enjoy RaceTracker, and let us know what you think!

Thanks,

-the OC Team

Opencongress.Org