Election 2004 -- Who's Your Candidate?

ENC 0010
2003/2004
Professor Siler

Your Assignment | Team Evaluation Sheet | Final Evaluation Sheet

Getting Started |  Candidate Web Sites | News Sites | Databases for Articles

Some Web Sites of Interest to get you started
Who are these people and where do they come from?

Vote Smart
Look-up a candidate’s biographical info, views on current issues, & voting record
http://www.vote-smart.org/election_president.php

Guide to Election 2004 from Politics1.com
Founded in 1997, Politics1 is published as a non-partisan public service to promote fully informed decision-making by the American electorate. http://www.politics1.com/p2004.htm

Presidential Election.com
They sell stuff here, but also have links to good info—links to candidate sites.
http://www.presidentialelection.com/

Yahoo 2004 Presidential Election
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Elections/Presidential_Elections/2004_Presidential_Election/

Congress.org – Presidential Candidates
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/prescand/

Democracy in Action
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/P2004.html

And, of course, every candidate has a site of their very own to dazzle you…

(It’s fun to compare what they say in their own site to what you find in other candidate’s sites or non-partisan informational sites or news articles.) 

Badnarik – Libertarian Party
http://www.badnarik.org/

Braun – Democratic Party
http://www.carol2004.org

Bush – Republican Party
http://www.georgewbush.com/

Dean – Democratic Party
http://www.deanforamerica.com/

Gephart – Democratic Party
http://www.dickgephardt2004.com/

McKinney – Green Party
http://www.votemckinney.org/

And there are many many more… those that have a site are listed on the Vote-Smart Site http://www.vote-smart.org/election_president.php 

or check the specific political party sites:  

Some General News Sites – find articles about your candidate and the issues 

ABC News (search for presidential election 2004 or election 2004…)
http://abcnews.go.com/

National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/

C-Span
http://www.c-span.org/

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/default.asp

Reference Desk – Newspapers
http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html#natnews

Statistics

US Census - Statistical Abstract
(Also available in print in the Reference Collection)
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

State Information
http://www.census.gov/statab/states/
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/stateabs.html

State Quick Facts
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/

PCC Library's Statistics and Demographics Subject Guide
http://www.polk.edu/It/Library/subject/stats.htm

Databases for Magazine, Journal, Newspaper, Essays and Reference articles

To access these resources:

1.  Click on “Databases” from the PCC Library Web Site
http://www.polk.edu/it/library/

2. Enter you student ID number

3. Choose the database you wish to use

Examples of general databases that are good for finding articles in magazine, journal and newspaper:

Examples of databases that are good for finding articles in magazine, journal, newspapers, essays, and reference sources (good places to find information about the issues)

More Resources for Statistics:

A Note about Search Terms -- if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Search Term:  An element of a search or query. A
search term is the basic building block of a boolean search
or a weighted search. In a search engine a search term is
typically a word, phrase, or pattern match expression. For
example: cosmonaut or "space travel" or astronaut*

Possible search terms to consider:

presidential, president, election, 2004, candidate’s name, specific  issues...

And Remember…

No matter what source you use, evaluate it critically:  who wrote it?  When?  Why?

...and feel free to ask for assistance

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