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The Long Campaign: U.S. Elections 2008

CONTENTS
About This Issue
How the Internet Is Changing the Playing Field
New Voting Technology: Problem or Solution?
Voting for the First Time
Congressional Elections
The Changing U.S. Voter
Women Voters in the United States
Covering the Presidential Campaign: The View from the Press Bus
Political Polls: Why We Just Can’t Live Without Them
A Fresh Start
How the 2008 U.S. Elections Will Be Financed
Has the Electoral College Outlived Its Usefulness?
Bibliography
Internet Resources
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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.