For a linguistic/discourse/stylistics project, I would like to collect a large corpus of comments to blogs or online news that can be easily classified as left wing or right wing. I'm a bit overwhelmed by all the possibilities, so can anyone who has been following American political sites more than I have suggest pairs of right-wing-ish / left-wing-ish sites I might want to look at? I'm happy to do the right-wing/left-wing classification manually by looking for comments that unambiguously put forward a viewpoint that agrees with that of a republican or democratic candidate. But it would speed things up, I think, if I can start by scraping the comments from a site that is known to skew strongly either left or right, and then just read the comments to weed out opposing views. If I do it this way, I would need to use at least one left wing and one right wing site, and they need to be relatively similar in terms of type of site (news, opinion, single vs multiple author etc), number of commentators, moderation policies, etc.
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