If you do anything religiously,and I recommend you do, it should be to read Charles Pierce's blog on Politics in Esquire. Some of the best writing on the political scene I've come across since that crazed Southerner writing about Fear and Loathing and Richard Nixon way back when.
Romney just picked Paul Ryan for his VP pick... here's Pierce's description of the man: "the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Wisconsin." Great writer, funny too. And he has his hand on the pulse of our political zeitgeist... essential!