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PROF. WRIGHT

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There are lots of links on the Web providing information about the campaigns, candidates and issues.  Beware, not all of it is trustworthy and quite a number of site are not what they appear to be.

First!  You need to register to vote. 

 To register, just do three things:

  1. Get a mail-in voter registration form from your election office (link to state by state) or download the form from the web          http://www.fec.gov/votregis/vr.htm.
  2. Complete the form according to the easy-to-follow instructions.
  3. Mail the form to the address provided in the instructions. 

US Elections Links
 

One guy's incredible effort make Politics1  http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm  a rich election web site--an extensive set of links to candidates and parties--and you can subscribe (free) to an election discussion list with lots of good campaign gossip.

Just launched and impressive is the new Lycos 2000 site:
http://vote2000.lycos.com

Web White & Blue--2000 Election Information is just getting up for this election cycle.  This Harvard-based effort was quite useful in its initial cycle, 1998.
http://www.webwhiteblue.org/

Project Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/

Washingtonpost.com: Elections 2000
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/elections/

Election Central: League of Women Voters
http://www.lwv.org/

The Center for Responsible Politics is the best source of information on the flow of campaign money: http://www.opensecrets.org/

Federal Election Commission
http://www.fec.gov/

Campaigns & Elections: The Political Oddsmaker
http://www.camelect.com/

EVote: Election 2000 has a lot of good information  http://www.evote.com/

"A Mid-term History Lesson"--IntellectalCapital.com
http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/98/1029/icchart.html
 

Two sites that focus especially on younger (non)voters: "The Vanishing Voter." http://www.vanishingvoter.org/and 
Third Millennium at http://www.thirdmil.org/neglection2000/

The Iowa Electronic Markets allow you to "invest" in political stocks on how the parties will do in the congressional elections.: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/

Electnet is great if you want state and local information, including individual candidate and state party home pages. http://www.electnet.org/

Good coverage and information about races for the U.S. Congress can be found on http://www.votenet.com/ There you can find coverage of House and Senate contests by state.

You can get information about members of Congress at 

http://www.senate.gov/ and http://www.house.gov/.

A good source for political parties, besides the state specific ones in electnet.org, is http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/PolyCy/psparty.html.

Newspapers:  Hundreds are available on the Web.  Try those listed in Newsshare, or use one of the Web search engines like Yahoo or Altavista

 

This page was last updated 1/12/00
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Contact: wright1@indiana.edu