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Politics - Internet Resources
- UHM Hamilton Library Subject Guide for Political Science
- UHM
Databases for Political Science
- Politics - Google Directory
- Elections
- 2004
Presidential Election - Google Directory
- 2008
Presidential Election - Google Directory
- AlterNet - Election '04
- AlterNet - Election '08
- BBC News In-Depth Vote USA 2004
- BBC News In-Depth Vote USA 2008
- BetaVote.com - US Presidential Voting & Results by Country
- The Buying of the President - Center for Public Integrity - Investigative
Journalism in the Public Interest
"The mission of the Center for Public Integrity is to provide the American people with the findings of our investigations and
analyses of public service, government accountability and ethics related issues."
includes candidates' and administration officials' financial disclosure statements
- Commission on Presidential Debates
history, Pres & VP, transcripts 1960-, video reenactments, news, hosting a Debatewatch
- The Daily Show - Comedy Central - 2008 Election
- "Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? Ohio's Essential
Documents" by Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman and Steve Rosenfeld
- Elections 2004 - U Michigan Documents Center
Annotated links to resources for locating information primarily about federal elections in the United States, candidates, campaigns,
the
election process, policy issues (such as military service, gay marriage, health insurance coverage), historical elections, voting, etc
- Elections 2004 - Washington Post
- Electoral College Meta Analysis - Princeton U
- Electoral College Vote Predictor
- Electoral Vote Animation May 24 - Present
- Electoral Vote Calculator
- FundRace.org - Campaign Contributions
map of contributions by area, location search (home address) to find those who live near you that have made presidential campaign
contributions, search for friends or celebrities by name | calculations based on records filed with the FEC of contributions by all
individuals
- League of Independent Voters
formed to encourage progressive young adults 18-35 to participate in the 2004 U.S. federal election | description of stands on
issues and information for organizing in local & regional areas, special focus on "swing states"
- Let's Talk America
meeting & discussion resource for politics
- Maps & Cartograms - 2004 US Elections - U Michigan
- Nader for President 2004
- National Ballot Integrity Project
"a consortium of national, state and local organizations committed to the transparency and integrity of our elections"
- Overseas Vote Foundation
Register, Election Official Directory, Voter Help Desk, My Voter Account, State-specific Voter Information Directory, Federal Absentee Write-in
Ballot, News on Overseas Voting, Candidate Links
- Overseas Voter Website Censored by U.S. Government - Verified
Voting Overseas Registration
the US Federal site for American civilians' overseas voting has been blocked by the Pentagon, as most Americans
overseas are Democrats - meanwhile the Pentagon is making sure military personnel overseas are able to vote, as most
are Republican
- PBS: By the People: Election 2004 & The Online
NewsHour: Presidential Election Coverage 2008
election coverage, news, analysis, tools to research candidates & elections, best election websites, calendar of campaign events,
candidate biographies, positions, issues, general election topics, campaign finance reform, swing voters, lesson plans, glossary
- Pick Your Position on Issues & See Which Candidate Matches
- Political Communications Lab - Stanford U
experimental studies on how traditional & internet polls work | Voter Attention Share project - tracking daily
news references to election issues | other projects, audio lecture on online polling
- PollingReport.com
- Presidential Debates - 1960 - Present
- Rad Times
- RealClearPolitics - Polls
- Register to Vote @ Your Library
- Rock the Vote
voter registration info & organizing, links to issues, blog
- "Sorry Everybody" - Americans to the World on the Election | Apologies Accepted
- 2004 U.S. Election - CBC
- US Census Bureau - Facts for Features - Presidential Election: 2004 & 2008
- 2004 U.S. Election - Guardian Unlimited - U.K.
- UK Guardian Unlimited - U.S. Elections 2004 & 2008
- US Count Votes -- Response [PDF] to
Evaluation of Edison/Mitofsky
Election System 2004 [PDF]
prepared by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for the National Election
Pool (NEP)
(academic statistician analysis of certified voting inequality with exit polls)
- United States Elections 2004 - U.S. Information Office
"This publication provides an introductory overview of the American electoral process for people who are not familiar with U.S.
election practices and traditions."
- Verified Voting Foundation & Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
"reporting system to prevent election problems from disenfranchising voters or changing election outcomes inappropriately"
- Votergate
- Voting Section Home Page - US Dept of Justice Civil Rights Division
enforcement of federal voting right statutes, overseas voting, voting discrimination, felon disfranchisement, Motor Voter
Registration
- WhiteHouseForSale - Public Citizen
"gives the media and the public detailed information about who's getting what in return for their campaign gifts"
- Who Would the World Elect
- The World Votes
"gives people all around the world a voice in the forthcoming U.S. Presidential Election"
- Youth04
"grassroots organizing to transform the role 18-25 year olds will play in the 2004 election"
- Voting
- Citizens for Approval Voting
"Approval Voting allows you the option of voting for any number of candidates for a given office. The candidate who collects the
most votes wins."
- FairVote - Center for Voting Democracy
instant runoff voting (IRV), analysis of IRV & plurality election systems, cost of runoff elections, voter turnout issues, FAQ,
related legislation, animated teaching materials, news, communities using IRV
- VerifiedVoting.org - "Will your vote count in the next election? Maybe not! How will we
even know?
"champions transparent, reliable, and publicly verifiable elections in the United States"
- Vote: The Machinery of Democracy - Smithsonian
exhibition - ballots & voting systems, political, social, technological change, paper ballots, gear-and-lever voting machine,
punch-card ballots, 2000 Florida ballot re-count, ballot & voting, bibliography
- Voting Technology - The California Voter Foundation
voter verified ballot issues & activism | Activists & Organizations | Lawsuits & Legislation | Reports & Studies | Voting Equipment
Manufacturers | Voting Systems Standards
- Politics as Usual - Or Not
- America Coming Together
"elect progressive candidates all across America"
- The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC)
browse, search by topic, cartoonist, publication date, keyword, cartoonist profiles, editorial cartoon news briefs, RSS, "Cartoons
for the Classroom" - lesson plans & other classroom materials
- Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Hawaii was the first to pass a statewide resolution, citing the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as a motivating
factor
- Bush Beat - Village Voice
- CampusProgress.org
"an effort to strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses nationwide" | student journalism, interviews &
resources for young activists, arts & culture stories, audio & video content, community of campus bloggers
- The Center for American Progress
"a nonpartisan research and educational institute"
- Center for Civic Participation
Register to Vote, Listservs, Civic Media Toolshed, State Resources, Library, Organizing, Projects
- Center for Media and Democracy
- Choose the Blue
which corporations donated to which political parties - vote with your consumer $s
- Congresspedia - SourceWatch, Center for Media & Democracy
- Congressional Observer Publications - Every House & Senate Vote
complete record, individual members' records
- Congressional Progressive Caucus
"...share a common belief in the principles of social and economic justice, non-discrimination and tolerance in America, and in our
relationships
with other countries"
updates, briefs, alerts, issues in Congress, members
- DemocracyNow.org
national daily award-winning program, independent, int'l journalists' perspectives
- Democratic National Committee
- Democratic Underground
- Democrats Abroad
- dKosopedia - the free political encyclopedia
- eDemocracy
"citizen interaction on public issues"
- Editorial Cartoons: The Impact and Issues of an Evolving
Craft - Harvard U, Neiman Foundation for Journalism [PDF]
impact & future of political cartoons in the U.S., decline of editorial cartooning, freedom of speech, accusations of
anti-Americanism, impact of local cartoons, the shortage of women cartoonists, relationship between editors and cartoonists
- Electionworld.org - Elections Around the World
- Electoral College - National Archives and Record
Administration
(NARA)
history, how it works, relevant law, allocation of electoral votes, results from past elections, deadlines for state officials,
links to
teaching resources, FAQ
- The Electoral College - Center for Voting and Democracy
how it works, how it doesn't
- FactCheck.org
monitors politicians' factual accuracy - Annenberg Political Fact Check - Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of
Pennsylvania
- Federal Election Commission
- 4President.org
presidential campaigns 1960-present, campaign trails, banners, blogs, website features, wallpaper, links
- Foreign Policy Association
- The Gallup Organization
- GoPetition.com
free online petition hosting service
- Harvard University Institute of Politics - Kennedy School of Government
reflecting JFK's commitment to public service, internship opportunities, study groups, conferences, speakers, research,
publications, student voting polls, youth civic engagement, video archive of recent Forum events
- Hawaii Campaign Spending Commision Main Page
- Impeach Central
"The Bush Administration has violated domestic and international laws, circumvented the Constitution, and undermined our democratic
rights"
- Impeachment Backgrounder - Cornell U. Law School
- Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
- Justice Talking - The Sound of Democracy
debates on current significant legal issues
- Liberal Oasis
- The "Listen to the People" Pledge Campaign for Politicians
and Public Officials
- Lobbying Database - OpenSecrets.org - Center for Responsive Politics
lobbying firms & lobbyists expenditures 1998- to Congress & government agencies | search by firm or lobbyist name, industry, issue,
government agency
- Moveon.org
"working to bring ordinary people back into politics"
- NationalJournal.com
- Oligopoly Watch
"an attempt to make sense of the business pages in the newspaper, particularly the stories about mergers and acquistions...how and
why big
companies keep growing bigger"
- OnlineWomeninPolitics.org: Statistics - Center for Asia-Pacific Women
in
Politics (CAPWIP)
- OnTheIssues.org - Positions of State & Federal Candidates
- OpenCongress.org - Sunlight Foundation &
Participatory Politics Foundation—
"brings together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind each bill...free, open-source,
non-profit, and non-partisan" | Bills, Senators, Representatives, Committees, Industries, Issues, Blog
- Open Debates
"A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to reforming the presidential debate process currently secretly controlled by the
major parties and called by Walter Cronkite 'unconscionable'"
- Opensecrets.org - Money in politics data & 2008
Presidential Election
- Our Future
"citizen activists & policy experts concerned about our country & our planet" | Issues & Campaigns, Projects,
Press Center, Action Center, Institute
- PetitionPetition.com
provides free posting of petitions, automated signing and circulation
- Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
- Pledge of Action to Stop A Stolen Election
"a joint project of United for Peace & Justice, Global Exchange, Code Pink, and The Liberty Tree Foundation for
the Democratic Revolution" | Election Reform: Campaign Financing, Election Rules, Center for Voting and Democracy,
Proportional representation, The Electoral College, Presidential debates, The Power of Incumbency, Corporate-financed
Conventions, Democratic Participation and Competition, Tamper-proof Voting Machines, Free Access to Commercial Media,
Expanding Suffrage
- Political Advocacy Groups: A Directory of United States Lobbyists
lists lobbying groups by issue, contact information, brief description, number of times "news articles across the country quoted,
mentioned, or
cited each group", whether the group rates the performance of members of Congress, searchable
- Political Money Line - FEC - Federal Election Commission
information for several election cycles and various election categories (House, Senate, President), and on PAC contributors
- Politics Links - Yahoo
- Primer on Draft Resistance
- Principles Project - A Project of Progressive 2020 Democrats
- Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)
research on public attitudes - polls, focus groups, comprehensive reviews
- ProgressiveSecretary.org
free progressive email letters sent to officials on peace, ecology, civil rights & other issues
- Protest.Net
- Public Citizen
"a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress,
the executive branch and the courts" | News, Publications, Email Alerts, Voting, Action | Auto Safety, Congress Watch,
Health Research, Litigation, Home Heating, Global Trade Watch, Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program
- The Radical Middle
policy issues, conferences, books - politics, law, business, global governance - "Radical Middle thinkers and
activists take the best (the most humane, the most practical, the most inclusive) ideas from the left AND right, and
also go beyond them..."
- Recall Warnings
politicians & other products
- Reform Party of the USA
- Republican National Committee
- Right Web
- Robert's Rules of Order Revised for Deliberative Assemblies
- Roll Call - The Newspaper of Capitol Hill
- Roper Center: Polling 101 - U Conn
"the largest library of public opinion data in the world."
Sampling, Total Survey Error, Reading Tables, Role of Polls in Policymaking, Public Opinion Matters: recent polls on
economic issues, education, technology, Links
- Silent Partners - How Political Non-Profits Work the System - The Center for
Public Integrity
news & info on contributions by 527 organizations related to state & federal elections 2000 to present | These
organizations can raise "unlimited contributions and can spend millions on advertising so long as they do not
specifically call for the election or defeat of a
federal candidate." | lists of major committees & individual donors, searchable database on 500 committees
- SourceWatch
formerly called the "Disinfopedia", a collaborative project to produce a
directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that
work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests.
Sponsored by the Center for Media and Democracy
- Talking Points Memo
"Joshua Micah Marshall, PhD American History, Brown University, is a writer living in Washington, DC. He is a Contributing Writer
for the Washington Monthly and a columnist for The Hill."
- TrueMajority
- U.S. Congress Votes Database - Washington Post
congressional votes since 1991, by Congress or individual, by type such as impeachments, treaties, vice-presidential tiebreakers,
RSS feed of recent votes by each member of Congress
- The Vanishing Voter Project - Harvard
"A Project to Study and Invigorate the American Electoral Process"
- Voice of the Shuttle - Politics & Government
- Vote Smart Web
- Vote.com
automatically emails representatives on an issue and tracks their voting
- Voter Bill of Rights
- WikiThePresidency - People For the American Way
"a resource for those seeking information on White House wrongdoing...only factual material backed up with links to reputable
sources"
- Write Your Representatives
- Youth Vote Coalition
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