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Elections Issues Links Page |
Selected Web Sites
Databases for Finding
Magazine & Journal Articles
Catalog for Finding Books
California Issues & Statistics Links Page
Recommended Web Sites:
2008
Elections General Elections Issues
Find your polling place and ballot (California)
SFGate.com: Campaign 2008: Coverage of
the 2008 election, covering national and San Francisco Bay Area stories.
Also includes blog entries, links to local registrars of voters, and election background. Guide to 2008
California State Initiatives. Guide to 2008 San
Francisco Measures. From the San Francisco Chronicle.
San Francisco Bay Guardian:
Endorsements 2008: Election recommendations from
New York
Times: Presidential Election of 2008: Extensive archive of news
stories and op-ed columns on the 2008
Barack Obama Campaign website John McCain Campaign website
University of Michigan
Documents Center: Elections 2008: Extensive, annotated listing of
websites related to the 2008
Facts
for Features Special Edition: The 2008
Presidential Election:
"To mark the start of
the 2008 presidential election season, the Census Bureau has
culled ... facts from previously released statistical reports." Data
focuses on state and national voter turnout trends, including women, military
veterans, registration methods, reasons for not voting, and related facts. From
the
U.S. Electoral College: 2008 Presidential Election: Background about the Electoral College and the 2008 presidential election. The Electoral College is a the process where "people of the
Fivethirtyeight.com: Compiles political polling
data through a unique methodology to "balance out the polls with
comparative demographic data" and "weighting each poll based on the
pollster's historical track record, sample size, and recentness of the poll."
The site is named after the number of electors in the United States
electoral college.
RealClearPolitics: Political
news aggregator,
polling data aggregator, and blog. The site compiles averages of major political polls
on various elections
throughout the
Pollster.com: Compiles political polling data.
Easy Voter Guide: Nonpartisan information about the
why, how and what of voting.
A collaboration of the League of Women Voters of
California Education Fund, the California
State Library and the California Secretary
of State's Office
Smart
Voter: Voter
information on current elections: polling information, FAQs about candidates
and issues & more. From the League of Women Voters.
California Voter Foundation: Home of the
California Secretary of State: Elections & Voter Information: Official voter information guide, candidate information, campaign finance information, voter registration cards, and campaign polling place information
Congress.org: Elections: Lists major candidates and their issue positions,
state-by-state information on upcoming elections, links to Congressional and
state legislative races by state.
Vote Smart: Voting records, issues information, and much more. Enter your zip code to get information on all your representatives, state and federal, including biographical, address, committee assignments, etc.
FactCheck.org: A nonpartisan "consumer
advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and
confusion in U.S. politics by monitoring the factual accuracy of what is said
by major U.S. political players. A project of the Annenberg Public Policy
Center of the
Follow
the Money:
Monitors campaign contributions by individuals, businesses, special interest
groups, and industry sectors for state elections held 1990 through 1998.
Visitors may search the database for contributions by people or groups in one
or more elections; view summary reports for selected states; or read analyses
of specific elections and spending patterns by special interest groups (such as
the National Rifle Association and the gambling industry). Data is not
available for all states for all years. Data is supplied by government agencies
within each state, then compiled by the nonpartisan, nonprofit National
Institute on Money in State Politics.
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential
Campaign Commercials 1952 - 2008: contains more than 300 commercials, from every
presidential election since 1952. From the Museum
of the Moving Image.
Field (California) Poll:
California
Political Precinct Index: “The first known
attempt to rate the political ideology of nearly all
Public
Agenda Online: This site addresses 18 controversial
issues: abortion,
California Ballot Proposition Database (1911-Present): Searchable source of information
on
Introduction To Federal
Voting Rights Laws: from the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division,
Voting Section.
Magazine
& Journal Databases (to access articles):
Gale
PowerSearch databases on campus or off-campus w/ library card
articles from academic
journals, popular magazines, newspapers and reference sources; excellent general periodical database.
o To narrow searches, use the Advanced search mode
o
PLEASE NOTE: When
search results are first displayed, only magazine articles are shown, if
available for your search.
Click on the “Journals”
tab to display academic journal
articles on your topic; click on the "Books" tab
for articles from books; click on the "News" tab
for news articles.
The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System. After clicking on the link above to access the catalog, follow the steps below:
- Type search words (title, author and/or subject) in the first search box & click Submit.
- The search results will show books and other materials in all libraries in the PLS system.
- To Limit your results to books at Skyline College
Library, scroll down to Limit to: Location: pull-down menu below the
search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select
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