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Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701-4799
rdrenka@semo.edu
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Project Vote Smart - A Voter's Self-Defense System:
The first site for intelligent politics and elections followers everywhere in
the U.S. From this index page, jump first to Candidates and Elected Officials
for comprehensive candidate information, or go to Candidate Public Statements
for search-based profiles of presidential primary and other contestants.
The 2000 presidential primary list is at Candidates for President in 2000 - Sorted by Name - Project Vote Smart.
Highly recommended for political junkies and smart voters alike.
Freedom Channel -- American Politics on Demand: This recent site offers direct videos of the presidential candidates speaking on important campaign issues. Also included are Senate, House and state gubernatorial candidates. This is direct face-the-camera video with the candidate and the watcher/listener, unmediated except for use (presumably) of a teleprompter. Sponsors are Doug Bailey and Roger Craver; Freedom Channel is a nonprofit venture supported by Carnegie Corp., The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and National Journal. Highly recommended, especially for Project Vote-Smart enthusiasts who yearn for audio and video supplements to candidate statements, and for those like myself who loathe the prevalent current uses of negative radio and television commercials.
The Democracy Network: Another excellent public service site, backed by League of Women Voters (League of Women Voters of the United States). For 2000 candidacies, jump directly to DNet President 2000.
C-SPAN Campaign 2000: This includes C-SPAN Campaign 2000 Video Search, a rapidly expanding archive on Campaign 2000.
CNNAllPolitics - Election 2000: Probably the site of choice for intensive daily politics news readers. It also offers a very extensive set of candidate advertisements for QuickPlayer users.
Democracy in Action--P2000: Race for the White House: George Washington University's excellent site features a sequence of 12 buttons covering the events from 1999 "invisible primary" shakeout of candidates, through the year 2000, ending with 20 January 2001 inauguration of a 43rd President of the United States. Highly recommended, especially for anyone confused by or uncertain about the calendar of events.
Politics1 Presidency 2000 - The Presidential Candidates: A good commercial site; includes Politics1 Political News & Resources for anyone seeking current events coverage from U.S. sources. Also includes a handful of major foreign news sites such as BBC.
WhiteHouse 2000 The Campaign from Avi Bass at Northern Illinois University; a very varied site, interesting links, very current, with every conceivable link.
All Presidential Candidates Total Raised and Spent: You can track this via FEC, of course, but there are others doing it for you. This site from Open Secrets is among the best for knowing who's raised or spent what in campaign money. Links are provided to explain bundling, soft money, FEC rules and regulations for campaign money, and other arcane points in the complicated money picture.
Political Science ResourcesUnited States Politics: Grace York of University of Michigan Documents Center runs an outstanding annotated site for links, including extensive ones on Campaign and Election 2000 locales.
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State political news: Start with stateline.org your source for state news from Pew Center for People & the Press. Use their search at stateline.org State Facts and Information for a given state.
U..S. Federal Government:
US Census Bureau Home Page:
Included is U.S. Census Bureau People Topics,
linking to US Census Bureau Census 2000.
Also see link to Voting and Registration Data
as part of the Current
Population Survey. Students of community profiles will find The American Community Survey
highly useful.
Federal Election Commission:
Fedstats One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics: Compendium for more than 70 agencies that produce statistics from Interagency Council on Statistical Policy. See FedStats Federal Agencies for listing of specific agency and statistic.
Economic Report of the President: Database since 1996 and PDF files since 1995.
Office of Management and Budget: Included for legislative followers is 106th Congress - First Session (1999) Statements of Administration Policy; and an archive Statement of Administration Policy -- Previous Sessions dates from 1997.
THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet: An excellent starting point. Included are roll calls dating back to 1990. Also Résumés of Congressional Activity 91 - 105th Congresses covers a variety of standard indicators of legislative workload and output. Public laws are listed from the 93rd Congress in 1973-74, at Search Bill Summary & Status. Days in session date from the 94th (1975-76), at Days in Session Calendars -- House and Senate.