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09 April 2008

Internet Resources

Online resources on U.S. electoral process

Collections of Elections Links

P2008: Race for the White House

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/P2008.html

U.S. Department of State, Foreign Press Center: Elections 2008

http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/c21250.htm

U.S. Department of State: U.S. Elections

http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/democracy/elections/elections_links.html

U.S. National Archives: U.S. Election & Voting Resources

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/links2.html#maps

Vanderbilt University Elections Links

http://lib11.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/godort.pl?searchtext=Elections&Type=Simple&Resource=DB&Website=FDTF

Voice of America. The Road to the 2008 Election

http://www.voanews.com/english/US-Elections-2008.cfm

Videos

Campaign Network — From C-SPAN and Congressional Quarterly

http://www.campaignnetwork.org/

ExpertVoter.org: A Video Guide to the 2008 Presidential Candidates

http://www.expertvoter.org/

The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2004

http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/

RealClearPolitics Videos — Videos from mainstream news sources

http://video.realclearpolitics.com/video_vault/

RealClearPolitics Vlog — Videos on elections 2008 from YouTube and other sources

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/

You Choose '08

http://www.youtube.com/youchoose

PrezVid: The YouTube Campaign-2008

http://www.prezvid.com/

Candidates

Presidency 2008 — From Politics1.com

http://www.politics1.com/p2008.htm

The Presidential Field: Full Coverage of the 2008 Candidates

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/

Religion & Politics '08

http://pewforum.org/religion08/

Youth Voting

Can I Vote?

http://www.canivote.org/

CIRCLE: Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement

http://www.civicyouth.org/

Generation Engage

http://www.generationengage.org/

I'm 18 in 08 — Youth voting blog and documentary film

http://im18in08.blogspot.com/

Opinion Polls

CBS News Polls

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/opinion/polls/main500160.shtml

The Gallup Poll

http://www.galluppoll.com/

The Harris Poll

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/

Los Angeles Times Poll

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/timespoll/

The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

http://people-press.org/

PollingReport.com

http://www.pollingreport.com/

RealClearPolitics Polls

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

Survey Research Links

http://felix.iupui.edu/Links.htm

Zogby International

http://www.zogby.com/

Mainstream Media Blogs on Elections

ABC News: The Note

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/

CBS News: Politics

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/politics/main250.shtml

CNN: The Situation Room

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/situation.room/blog/

Fox News: Update '08

http://www.update08.foxnews.com/

MSNBC News: First Read

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

National Journal: The Hotline

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/

New York Times: The Caucus

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/

Washington Post: The Fix

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/

Campaign Finance

The Campaign Finance Institute

http://www.cfinst.org/

Federal Election Commission: Campaign Finance Law

http://www.fec.gov/law/feca/feca.shtml

Office of the Clerk, House of Representatives: Federal Election Campaign Reports

Federal Election Campaign Finance Reports

Project Vote Smart: Campaign Finance

http://www.vote-smart.org/official_five_categories.php?dist=finance.php

Race for the White House: Banking on Becoming President

http://opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp

Election Law Resources

The Campaign Legal Center

http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/

Commission on Federal Election Reform

http://www.american.edu/ia/cfer/

Election Law @ Moritz (College of Law)

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/

Federal Election Commission: Administering and Enforcing Federal Campaign Finance Laws

http://www.fec.gov/index.shtml

Help America Vote Act of 2002

http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm

U.S. Constitutional Provisions

http://www.eac.gov/clearinghouse/u-s-federal-election-system

(Click on "Constitutional Provisions")

U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section: Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/misc/faq.htm

Voting Rights Act

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100

Electoral College

Library of Congress: Who Really Elects the President?

http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/oct04/election.html

U.S. National Archives: Electoral College Calculator

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/calculator.html

U.S. National Archives: U.S. Electoral College

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/

Voting Technology

Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project

http://www.vote.caltech.edu/

Election Reform Information Project

http://www.electionline.org

How E-voting Works

http://people.howstuffworks.com/e-voting.htm

The National Association of State Election Directors

http://www.nased.org/membership.htm

Vote: The Machinery of Democracy

http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/

Web Sites for the Secretaries of State and/or Directors of Elections

http://fvap.gov/links/statelinks.html

The U.S. Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the resources listed above. All Internet links were active as of October 2007.