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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:
General Elections Information 2008 Elections
2010 Elections:
California Elections - 2010: Links to Voters
Guides, Issues Sites, News
& Research and more. (from the BALIS/PLS/SVLS
System Reference Center.)
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.
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.
U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, Election
Information: Historical federal election results (Presidential and Congressional,
from 1920 to present).
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 Propositions and Initiatives
Databases (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.
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
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
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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