The Cook Political Report is a Web site devoted to providing subscribers with political analysis of U.S. presidential, House, Senate and governor elections and campaigns. The site relaunched recently in Drupal, drastically improving the workflow for content publishers and improving usability for readers.
http://cookpolitical.com
About the Project
The Cook Political Report is a Washington DC-based institution with a 24-year history. It began as a printed newsletter for subscribers and moved online in 2004. Cook Political’s niche is in rating political races on a 7-point scale and by keeping track of all data related to each election. This includes names and parties of candidates, fundraising numbers, filing and election dates, partisanship of a state or district, and more. The principal, Charlie Cook, is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading authorities on U.S. elections and political trends.
Until the Drupal-based site was launched, Cook Political staff published their reports and analyses as PDF files. This caused major headaches for them because many files had to be updated even if only one piece of data changed. When approaching the redesign of the site, the client’s number one requirement was a Content Management System that allowed content editors to make global changes to data and text.