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Elections 2008

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Ballot Access News	Blue Eagle Columnists	Election Day 2008	Democratic Primaries -CNN
Democratic National Convention	Polling Report: A Non-partisan Public Opinion Resource	National Election Studies	Open Secrets: Money and US Elections
Presidency 2008	Project Vote Smart - 2008	Roll Call	Ron Gunzburger's Politics: Online Guide to U.S. Politics
University of Michigan's Elections 2008 Site	Washington Post	NPR: Election Coverage 2008	2008 - On The Issues. The Candidate's Positions.
Official Web Site: Barak Obama	Official Web Site: Hillary Clinton	Official Web Site: John McCain	Official Web Site: Mike Huckabee

Critical Analyses

The Campaign Desk
http://campaigndesk.org/
"Critique and analysis of 2006 campaign coverage
from Columbia Journalism Review"

Center for Voting and Elections
http://www.fairvote.org/
"The Center for Voting and Democracy (CVD) is dedicated to fair elections where all voters have an opportunity to be represented. " Up to the minute information is provided, including pending legislation, voters rights, redistricting, etc.

Election Center 2008 - Election & Politics News from CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/
Up to the minute news and information on the Presidential Elections from CNN.

Elections and Electoral Systems Around the World
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/election.htm
This page provides links to a variety of electoral resources for the U.S. and around the world.

FactCheck
http://www.factcheck.org/
"The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of
Pennsylvania. It is a "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. It monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. "

Fox News: You Decide - Elections 2008
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/
News, blogs and more on the Candidates from Fox News.

Lijphart Elections Archive
http://dodgson.ucsd.edu/lij/
"The Lijphart Elections Archive, housed at the University of California, San Diego campus, is a research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats.

National Voting Rights Institue
http://www.nvri.org/
Founded in 1994, the Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to challenging the constitutionality of the current campaign finance system across the country. The Institute argues that today’s system of privately-financed election campaigns operates as the newest wealth barrier in the political process. Through litigation and public education, the Institute has redefined the campaign finance question as a basic voting rights issue.

Preserving Presidential Elections
http://www.iwaw.net/07/IWAW2007_shah.pdf
In this metadata world, how do we retain and preserve all those interesting videos, news pages and blogs by and about Presidential candidates that are only on the internet? Could political eloquence and gravity on the net be so ephemeral? This paper by two scholars from the School of Information and Library Sciences at the Unversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill address this issue.

Politics2008
http://www.politics2008.com/
This non-partisan site brings you the premier collection of election and political news, blogs, polls, and other election and candidate resources. We are not affiliated with any candidate, political party, or issue.

Project Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/
PVS calls itself "a voter's self-defense system". Provides extensive information on candidates and elected officials. Allows search of "who represents you" by zip code. Also has voting records of members of Congress.

Proportional Representation Library
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/polit/damy/prlib.htm
"A source of information on proportional representation elections -- including beginning readings, in-depth articles by scholars and activists, an extensive bibliography, and a guide to related Web sites. This site has been created by Professor Douglas J. Amy, Department of Politics, Mount Holyoke College."

Republican Party

Massachusetts Republican Party
http://www.massgop.com/
Up to date information on the Republican Party in Massachusetts.

Republican National Committee
http://www.rnc.org/
The official site of the Republican Party.

Democratic Party

Democratic National Committee
http://www.democrats.org/
The official site of America's oldest party.

Massachusetts Democratic Party
http://www.massdems.org/
Up-to date coverage of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts.

Green Party

Green Party in the United States
http://www.gp.org/
Official web site for the Green party in America.

Green Rainbow Party
http://www.massgreens.org/
Official site of the Massachusetts Green Party. (The Massachusetts Green Party and the Massachusetts Rainbow Coalition Party joined forces in 2002 to give a united front for progressive politics in Massachusetts and are an officially recognized political party.)

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