Click Here to Return Home

The Challenge of Democracy

Chapter 9


Return to Table of Contents

Chapter Nine: Nominations, Elections, and Campaigns
Web Links
(page references match the sixth edition)

Websites of announced candidates for president in 2000

p. 282 - In addition to administering laws regulating campaign finance, the Federal Election Commission also publishes authoritative election results. Here is the FEC report on the 1996 presidential primaries, by state and party.

p. 284 - For the rundown on the cast of characters seeking party nominations for president in the 2000 election, go to White House 2000.

p. 285 - Who ran for president in 1836, who won, and by how much? Presidential Elections destails statistics for all presidential elections. (Martin Van Buren, the Democratic candidate, won 50.8% of the popular vote, defeating three candidates of the fractured Whig Party.)

p. 290 - The topic of campaign finance was raised in the previous chapter, but it surfaces again here. A Road Test in the web site, Destination Democracy, asks for your opinion about several aspects of campaign finance, then uses your answers to place you within its campaign finance framework.

p. 294 - Skeleton Closet seems proud to report "dirt, attitude and opinionated character reviews of all the Presidential Candidates," inviting you to click on the name of a party or candidate to read its collected allegations (note, not documented facts).
- Additional World Wide Web Resources page 304

The Center for Media and Public Affairs "is a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media. CMPA election studies have played a major role in the ongoing debate over improving the election process. Our continuing analysis and tabulation of late night political jokes provides a lighter look at major news makers."

Emily's List identifies viable pro-choice democratic women candidates for key federal and statewide offices and supports their campaigns financially and organizationally. "Emily" is an acronym for "Early Money is Like Yeast." Why yeast? "It makes the dough rise," so "early money" in a campaign brings later money.

Campaigns & Elections Online This is the site for the magazine, Campaigns & Elections, which reports on current campaigns and campaign strategy, methods, products, etc.

Electme.com bills itself as the "ultimate political candidate information website," where wired voters able to find pertinent information provided by candidate pages for all Executive, Legislative and Judicial offices contained in the U.S.A., whether Federal, State, County, City, Village, or Township."

Return to Top

Web Links

-

Neither the Houghton Mifflin Company nor the authors of The Challenge of Democracy are responsible for content on these web sites. These links are for academic purposes only and are not advertisements or endorsements by COD, its publisher, or its authors.