[shakethemonkey]

Political Graveyard[1] is the world's richest open dataset on American politicians, and its size dwarfs everypolitician.org

[1] http://www.politicalgraveyard.com/

[Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the site, not even sure who runs it]

[freyir]

> not even sure who runs it

Lawrence Kestenbaum, attorney, politician, and the creator and webmaster of The Political Graveyard website.

[tfgg]

That's really amazing.

In terms of utility to effort ratio, I think it's right to start with national legislatures. However, I hope there will eventually be a dataset that's as deep as Political Graveyard for the entire planet, even if just to satisfy my inner data nerd :)

[Sabinus]

How difficult would it be, technically or otherwise, to get these websites to agree to mirror their common content?

[knowaveragejoe]

I just wanna say, they could definitely use with a facelift.

[unimpressive]

Site loads fast, has information, not a UI trainwreck. Good enough for me.

[Diederich]

Better than good enough: it's good. It's also preferable to something more SPAish.

To be clear: I've professionally written such javascript only Single Page Applications, and they worked out really well, since they were all dynamic, real-time changing content all the way.

[knowaveragejoe]

It doesn't need to be cutting edge or anything close to it - just less link soup. I'd hate to use this on mobile, on top of that.