Yesterday someone asked me how I brainstorm new stories to pitch... well, I have a website that I now love and am adding to my favorites :).  Real Clear Politics posts all of the politically-based articles in papers across the country on its site, and it also takes all of the polls performed nationally and distills them into manageable data points.  You can see polling numbers on a wide variety of races across the country, and also tracks "issues."  If you click on "issues" you will see an alphabetized list of the issues currently under discussion across the country and world.  Viola!  The brainstorming for expert citations and localization of national/world trends has begun!