NATIONAL LINKS
ABC News: Match-O-Matic
Answer a few questions on your positions on issues and find the presidential candidate that most closely matches your beliefs. (Includes all the candidates in the primaries.)
VoteMatch Quiz
Another site at which you answer a few questions and find out which candidates are closest to your own views.
FactCheck.org
Debunks false and misleading ads and statements. A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, this site acts as a nonpartisan “consumer advocate” for voters with the aim of reducing “the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics”.
ProCon.org: 2008 Election
“Our goal is to research issues that we feel are complicated and important and work to present them in a balanced, comprehensive, straightforward, and primarily pro-con format for free and without advertising on the internet.”
League of Women Voters Education Fund: VOTE411.org
“VOTE411.org is a “one-stop-shop” for election related information. It provides nonpartisan information to the public with both general and state-specific information.”
Project Vote Smart
As a national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart provides information on candidates and elected officials in six basic categories: biographical information, voting records, issue positions, interest group ratings, public statements, and campaign finances.
New Voters Project
A project of the Student PIRGs (Student Public Interest Research Groups). “The New Voters Project is a nonpartisan effort to register young people and get them to the polls on Election Day.”
Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE)
Save is “a national non-partisan, non-profit organization, founded and run by students, with a mission to increase youth voter turnout by removing access barriers and promoting stronger civic education”.
Rock the Vote
“Rock the Vote’s mission is to engage and build the political power of young people in order to achieve progressive change in our country.”
FiveThirtyEight: Electoral Projections Done Right
The number 538 refers to the number of electors in the electoral college. The mission of this Website, in its own words is: “Most broadly, to accumulate and analyze polling and political data in way that is informed, accurate and attractive. Most narrowly, to give you the best possible objective assessment of the likely outcome of upcoming elections.”
NEW HAMPSHIRE LINKS
WMUR-TV (Channel 9): Commitment 2008
WMUR-TV (Channel 9): Compare Candidates
New Hampshire Public Radio: Election 2008
New Hampshire Democratic Party
New Hampshire Republican Party
New Hampshire Secretary of State’s Election Division
Voting [in NH] as a College Student
(from the NH Secretary of State’s Office)
ISSUE-ORIENTED WEBSITES
League of Conservation Voters [Environment]
“The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is turning environmental values into national priorities. To secure the environmental future of our planet, LCV’s mission is to advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt and implement such policies.”
We Can Solve It [Climate Crisis; Environment]
The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection — a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore.
Divided We Fail [Health Care]
Sponsored by AARP, Business Roundtable, Service Employees Union (SEIU), and National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
Just $6 [Publicly Funded Elections]
Compiled by Gary McCool
gmccool@plymouth.edu
October 2008
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