David Brock's Third-Party Research Group.... ProgressiveAccountability.org,

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The new group -- a joint project of John Podesta's Center for American Progress Action Fund and Brock's Media Matters Action Network -- will have approximately 20 paid staffers and is headed by Tara McGuinness, formerly connected with MoveOn.org. It won't spend any money on ads, but will devote significant resources on digging into McCain's record and policy proposals.

The group also has on-staff trackers that will film McCain at every public event and post the footage on the group's Web site.

Interestingly, the treasure trove of research and months of tracking footage that had already been collected by Brock's group have now been posted on the site, too -- another reflection of the ongoing search by such groups for a way to be useful in a general election at a time when outside ad spending has been nixed by Obama.

"We track McCain and will post literally the footage of every event he does," said Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for the CAP Action Fund. "We're creating an excellent McCain resource."

http://progressiveaccountability.org/

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1. I love media matters, by far the most important progressive group out right now IMO.