Election Internet Resources
General Election sites | Candidates | Party Web sites
| Other Interesting Web sites

All sites, candidates, and political parties have been put in alphabetical order. Please use these sources to help make your own decision and VOTE.

If there is an individual or political party we may have missed or some unbiased information that you think should be included on this site, please email us at instruct@pace.edu.

Elections information:

Congress.org
Presented by a private, non-partisan company, this site has areas for Soapbox comments, information on acting on specific issues, and a means for you to contact your representatives as well as information on the leading presidential candidates.
http://congress.org

E-Democracy: Election Information
Based in Minnesota, this group seeks "to increase citizen participation in elections and public discourse through the use of information and communication technologies."
http://www.e-democracy.org/us

Politics 1 - American Politics, Elections, Candidates & Campaigns
This site calls itself the "Ultimate Guide to U.S. Politics & Elections..since 1997." They have daily updates with the latest news.
http://www.politics1.com/

Project Vote-Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm
"Project Vote Smart collects information on where candidates stand on a wide variety of issues and attempts to make that information readily available to the public." (quote from The Plain Dealer)

RockTheVote.com
Created in 1990, this group's goal is to increase youth voter turnout. The site has a blog as well as a the ability to help you register to vote online.
http://www.rockthevote.org/

 

Individual Candidates web sites:
Some of the candidates from 2004 still have their websites active. Look for more names here as people officially declare that they are running for President in 2008.

John Kerry http://www.johnkerry.com/

Dennis Kucinich http://www.kucinich.us/

Ralph Nader http://www.votenader.org/

 

National Political Party Web sites:

Constitution Party http://www.constitutionparty.com/

Democratic National Committee http://www.democrats.org/

Green Party http://www.gp.org/

Libertarian Party http://www.lp.org/

Natural Law Party http://www.natural-law.org/

Reform Party http://www.reformparty.org/

Republican National Committee http://www.rnc.org/

 

Index of all Political Parties http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/IDParties.htm
You will find many real political parties as well as some spoof parties listed on this site.

 

Other Interesting Web sites:

FactCheck.Org http://www.factcheck.org
This site created by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania hopes "to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics." They "monitor 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. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding." The site is funded primarily by an endowment from the Annenburg Foundation and they accept no funding from busines corporations, labor unions, political parties, lobbying orgnaizations or individuals.

Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004 http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/
This site from the American Museum of the Moving Image "is an innovative online exhibition presenting more than 250 television commercials from every election year beginning in 1952, when the first campaign ads aired, and including ads from this year’s campaign. Users can watch nearly four hours of TV commercials and explore the expanding world of Web-based political advertising. The site includes a searchable database and features commentary, historical background, election results, and navigation organized by both year and theme."

Polling Report.com http://www.pollingreport.com/
"An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion." Some of the data on this site is only available with a subscription. However, they already have several polls for the 2008 presidential elections freely accessible.

America Votes 2004 (CNN.com)
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/index.html
Check out the conventions, the candidates, the polls, and the results from 2004 on CNN.com.


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Updated 7/07/06
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