Daily Kos ( / koʊz / KOHZ ) ist ein Gruppenblog und Internetforum, das sich auf die US-amerikanische Demokratische Partei und liberale sowie progressive amerikanische Politik konzentriert . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Die Seite veröffentlicht Blogbeiträge, [ 3 ] Umfragen, [ 4 ] Daten zu Wahlen und Wahlkampfspenden [ 2 ] [ 5 ] und gilt als Beispiel für „ Netroots “-Aktivismus. [ 6 ] [ 7 ]

Daily Kos was founded in 2002 by Markos Moulitsas and takes the name Kos from the last syllable of his first name, his nickname while in the military.[2][3]

History

Daily Kos was founded in May 2002 by Markos Moulitsas in Berkeley, California.[1][3]

The Daily Kos is funded by advertising,[8][7]fundraising, and donations.

As of September 2014, Daily Kos has had an average weekday traffic of hundreds of thousands.[9]

The website ran on the Scoop content management system until 2011 when it moved to its own custom content management system referred to as "DK 4.0". In 2016 and 2017, the Trump presidency brought out huge support for the blog, with more than half a million in direct donations being received from their email campaigns.[10]

In 2018, the Daily Kos launched Civiqs, a division of the blog that provides political polling data from volunteer participants.[11][12][13]

In 2019 Prism, an independent, non-profit publication focused on covering injustice from the perspective of underrepresented groups, became an affiliate publication of the Daily Kos.[14][15]

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Daily Kos owner Kos Media LLC received $1.4 million in federally backed small business loans from Newtek Small Business Finance as part of the Paycheck Protection Program.[16][17]

Polling

Daily Kos had previously partnered with Research 2000 to produce polling for presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races across the country. In June 2010, Daily Kos terminated the relationship after finding that the data showed statistical anomalies consistent with deliberate falsification[18] and announced its intention to sue the polling firm.[19]

On November 30, 2010, an agreement to a settlement began as lawyers for the Plaintiff filed a status report indicating that both parties were "in agreement as to the contours of a proper settlement but are still in the process of determining whether the execution of the proposed terms is feasible".[20] In May 2011, The Huffington Post reported that Research 2000 pollster Del Ali agreed to settle the lawsuit and make payments to Daily Kos.[21]

The Daily Kos Elections tracked redistricting in the United States,[22] forecasted Electoral College results,[23] and provided polling data for elections.[24][25]

YearlyKos convention

In June 2006, members of Daily Kos organized the first ever Daily Kos political blogger convention, called YearlyKos, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was attended by approximately 1000[26] bloggers, and featured appearances by prominent Democrats such as Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, California Senator Barbara Boxer, General Wesley Clark, Governors Mark Warner, Bill Richardson, Tom Vilsack and DNC Chair Howard Dean. The event was widely covered in the traditional media, including Capitol Hill Blue,[27]The Boston Globe[28] and MSNBC.[29]C-SPAN also carried portions of the convention.[30]

Political activity

Daily Kos has been described variously as progressive,[31]left-leaning[32][33][34] and far-left.[35]

Daily Kos ist nicht nur eine Blog-, Nachrichten- und digitale Medienplattform, sondern auch eine politische Organisation . So berichtete die New York Times beispielsweise, dass James Thompson , der demokratische Kandidat für den vakanten Sitz im Repräsentantenhaus des 4. Wahlbezirks von Kansas im April 2017 , „fast 150.000 US-Dollar von Daily Kos erhielt … sowie einige kleinere Spenden von einer Gruppe, die mit Senator Bernie Sanders aus Vermont verbunden ist.“ [ 36 ] OpenSecrets berichtete, dass „das liberale Portal Daily Kos Thompson unterstützte und einen Spendenaufruf startete, der laut seiner Spendenseite bisher 178.000 US-Dollar einbrachte.“ [ 37 ]

Daily Kos hat namhafte demokratische Kandidaten bei Wahlen auf Landes- und Bundesebene unterstützt, darunter Hillary Clinton im Vorfeld der US-Präsidentschaftswahlen 2016 [ 38 ] und Jon Ossoff , der bei der Nachwahl 2017 im 6. Kongresswahlbezirk von Georgia kandidierte. Ossoff erhielt über eine Million Dollar an Spenden , die über Daily Kos gesammelt wurden. [ 39 ]

Im Jahr 2004 startete die Website die dKosopedia. Es handelte sich um ein Wiki , das auf der MediaWiki -Software basierte und als „politische Enzyklopädie … aus linker/progressiver/liberaler/demokratischer Sicht geschrieben, wobei gleichzeitig versucht wurde, die Position der Gegenseite angemessen zu berücksichtigen“ beschrieben wurde. [ 40 ] Sie umfasste über 14.000 Artikel, wurde aber inzwischen eingestellt. [ 41 ]

Die Website hat sich außerdem über ActionNetwork.org an umfangreichen digitalen Kampagnen an gewählte Amtsträger beteiligt, zusammen mit prominenten Partnerorganisationen wie der Saphron Initiative, Futures PAC, dem Advocacy Fund von Democracy for America und More Perfect Union . [ 42 ] [ 43 ]

Rezeption

2008 wählten die Leser des Time Magazine Daily Kos zum zweitbesten Blog. [ 44 ] 2009 listete Time Daily Kos in der Rubrik „Am meisten überschätzte Blogs“, da der Blog während der Präsidentschaft des Demokraten Barack Obama seine ursprüngliche Mission – den Kampf gegen die „unterdrückende und kriegslüsterne“ republikanische Regierung – verloren hatte . [ 45 ]

Im Jahr 2015 war der Karikaturist Dan Perkins als Tom Tomorrow von Daily Kos Finalist für den Pulitzer-Preis in der Kategorie Editorial Cartooning . [ 46 ]

In an October 2018 Simmons Research survey of 38 news organizations, the Daily Kos was ranked the fifth least trusted news organization by Americans in a tie with Breitbart News, with the Palmer Report, Occupy Democrats, InfoWars and The Daily Caller being lower-ranked.[47]

In 2023, Daily Kos received a PEN Oakland/Adelle Foley Award.

See also

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