eJournal USA: Issues of Democracy

Internet Resources

Online sources for information about the U.S. electoral process.

Elections Guide 2004

Electoral College

Center for Voting and Democracy—Electoral College
http://www.fairvote.org/e_college/index.html

Federal Election Commission: The Electoral College
http://www.fec.gov/pages/ecmenu2.htm

National Archives and Records Administration: U.S. Electoral College
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/

Election Reform

Campaign Finance: Constitutional and Legal Issues of Soft Money
(Congressional Research Service Report)
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/29688.pdf

Center for Responsive Politics
http://www.opensecrets.org/home

Election Reform Information Project: Reports on Election Reform
http://www.electionline.org/index.jsp?page=Publications

Election Reform: Overview and Issues
(Congressional Research Service Report)
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/28920.pdf

Media

ABC News Political Unit
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

Campaign Advertisements (Bush and Kerry)
http://pcl.stanford.edu/campaigns/campaign2004/index.html

CBS News: Campaign 2004
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/politics/main250.shtml

Cook Political Report
http://www.cookpolitical.com/

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/

Fox News Channel
http://www.foxnews.com/

New York Times—2004 Election Guide
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/ 2004_ELECTIONGUIDE_GRAPHIC/index.html

MSNBC Decision 2004
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553/

Voice of America: Road to the White House
http://www.voanews.com/specialreport.cfm?objectid=6B65B21A-4280-4D94-87D90E84B6298834

Washington Times
http://www.washtimes.com/national/

Political Parties

Bush/Cheney 04
http://www.georgewbush.com/

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

Democratic Party Platform for 2004
http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/www.democrats.org/pdfs/ 2004platform.pdf

Kerry-Edwards 2004
http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html

Nader-Camejo 2004
http://www.votenader.org/

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

Republican Party Platform for 2004
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Sections/News/Politics/ Conventions/RNC-2004platform.pdf

Polling and Public Opinion

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
http://people-press.org/

Polling Report
http://www.pollingreport.com/wh2004.htm

The Polls, the Pundits, and the Election of 2004, by John Zogby
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/election04/polls.htm

Quinnipiac University National Polls
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x701.xml

Real Clear Politics
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry.html

Presidential Election Campaigns

Commission on Presidential Debates
www.debates.org

Council on Foreign Relations: Campaign 2004
Foreign Policy in the Presidential Election
http://www.cfr.org/campaign2004/

Democracy in Action: P2004 Race for the White House
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/P2004.html

Elections 2004 (University of Michigan)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2004.html

Federal & State Election Resources
http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup25.htm

Federal Election Commission: About Elections and Voting
http://www.fec.gov/pages/electpg.htm

Foreign Press Center: Campaign 2004
http://fpc.state.gov/c9752.htm

League of Women Voters: The Election Process
http://www.lwv.org/voter/read.cfm?pid=elections101

Political Campaign Management
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/pcm/links.shtml

Politics1—Presidency 2004
http://www.politics1.com/p2004.htm

Project Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/

Scholastic News: Election 2004
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/election2004/

Voters

Center for American Women and Politics
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp

Center for Voting and Democracy
http://www.fairvote.org

Motivating Younger People to Vote
http://www.pewtrusts.com/pdf/new_voters_brief_0504.pdf

The U.S. Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the resources listed above. Links to all were active as of September 21, 2004.

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