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Russell D. Renka
Department of Political Science
Southeast Missouri State University
rdrenka@emo.edu
Below are links from PS360 students, for extra credit if they're usable, per my oral on Monday, November 1.
From Jeremy McCrary, M, 11/2/99:
Here are a few, very limited, links. So far I have been unable to find anything with a large body of research concerning primaries.
"1996 California Primary Election Server" - http://primary96.ss.ca.gov/
"California Secretary of State - Primary98 -June2, 1998 California Primary Election" -
http://primary98.ss.ca.gov/
These two links are (were) constantly updated as returns came in during the California primaries in those respective years.
Also available are the collected results of these elections, information about the candidates, and other voter-education information. I
would assume that there will be something similar for the 2000 election, but it isn't there yet.
"Targeting Opponents", Paul-Henri Gurian, Richard E. Dunn, Audrey A. Haynes
http://www.gsu.edu/~polaah/Target.htm
This article explores primaries as a process of elimination. The person who wins the nomination is not necessarily the best candidate,
but is simply the only one to have weathered the storm.
Washingtonpost.com: Primaries Could Be Decisive by Mid-March, Terry M. Neal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/primary070299.htm
This is a Washington Post article about the importance of the changes that have been made to
primary dates. It also goes into a little detail about the relationship between the states and parties, indicating that the DNC
punishes states for moving their primaries ahead, while the RNC offers incentives to those states that remain later in the cycle. The effects of the adjustments on various candidate types are also briefly discussed.