For several years now, Brad Friedman has been perhaps the most dedicated and energetic voice in America fighting for election transparency. Congratulations to him and others at The Brad Blog for their nomination as a finalist for a 2008 Weblog Award.

Please support BradBlog and clean elections by voting at the Weblog Awards site. As we all know, online voting is not only fun but also highly reliable. So vote early and often. Weblog Award voting rules permit you to cast a vote in any of the 50 or so categories every 24 hours.

Personally, I'm not familiar with any of the other blogs nominated. Please let us know if we ought to be reading and supporting any other award nominees in addition to BradBlog.

========= The BRAD BLOG Named as 'Finalist' for 2008Weblog Award ========= 

The BRAD BLOG hobbles wrist-wrecked and flu-fallen towards the finish line of a particularly harrowing and exhausting year, we're heartened by a very nice distinction, being named as Finalist in the 2008 Weblog Awards.

We hadn't even realized we were in the running, until the list of nominees was announced last night. So we're pleased to find ourselves in very distinguished company for the "Best Liberal Blog" nod:

We don't much care for the "Liberal Blog" label, but as neither "Best Independent Blog" nor "Best Non-Right wing nut Blog" were available categories, and given the company we're honored to share, we'll take whatever we can get and note -- as it is said, and we mean it -- the honor of simply being nominated.

Online voting for the title begins right here at the Weblog Awards site on Jan 5th. Though given the sizes of the (mostly) group blogs we're nominated alongside, as mentioned, we're honored to have simply been nominated, without even campaigning, as Finalist.