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December 21, 2005Map Political Contributions in Your Zip Code
Matthew Kane did a Google Mashup for a class at Indiana University and we all benefit! His project allows you to enter a zip code and get two pie charts and a Google map of campaign donators; you can check...
Continue reading "Map Political Contributions in Your Zip Code" » November 01, 2004Voting and Returns Information by State
Following is a list of 50 states and DC with pointers to election and voting information for each state. In many cases there is also a link to where election results will be. (The only state for which I have...
Continue reading "Voting and Returns Information by State" » Political Audio Information
Audible has announced http://www.listenbeforeyouvote.com, a collection of free political audio. Information here includes debates, conventions, and a variety of speeches....
October 26, 2004EB Offers Content on American Presidency
Encyclopedia Britannica is now offering fahree content about the American presidency; you can find it at http://www.britannica.com/presidentsWebapp/home.do . The site offers information on the presidency itself, as well as information on the presidents, vice-presidents, and first ladies. There's information on...
Continue reading "EB Offers Content on American Presidency" » October 20, 2004Anybody live-blogging the election?
If anyone's live-blogging the election -- that is, sitting in front of your computer and kibitzing the elections as they happen on 2 November -- please drop me a note. Thankee....
September 20, 2004AP Article on Web Sites Tracking Campaign Giving
Anick Jesdanun of the AP has a roundup article covering sites which track election campaign giving. Read it at http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,51548213,1466,f/....
Continue reading "AP Article on Web Sites Tracking Campaign Giving" » September 13, 2004Checking the Political Buzz with Campaign Radar
If you're interested not only in the US political campaign but what folks are saying about the US political campaign, you want to check out Campaign Radar. A variant of Intelliseek's BlogPulse that's focused on politics, you can find it...
Continue reading "Checking the Political Buzz with Campaign Radar" » September 12, 2004Track Campaign Donations to Illinois Candidates
The Illinois Sunshine Database (Illinois Sunshine Database?) offers information about over 150,000 recent contributions to Illinois political candidates. It's updated through June 30, 2004 and is available at http://www.ilcampaign.org. (Look on the right side of the page.) An advanced search...
Continue reading "Track Campaign Donations to Illinois Candidates" » August 30, 2004Republican National Convention Web Coverage
There are many places to get coverage on the Republican National Convention online. RNCBloggers (http://www.rncbloggers.com/) aggregates the blog post of both accredited bloggers and "other" coverage. Technorati has an aggregate of conservative bloggers at http://politics.technorati.com/posts/index.html?c=c . (As you might expect...
Continue reading "Republican National Convention Web Coverage" » July 05, 2004Over 50 Years of Presidential Commercials
Yes, the election is still months away, but couldn't you do with just a few more Presidential campaign commercials? Of course you could. Especially when the feature folks you haven't seen in years. The American Museum of the Moving Image...
Continue reading "Over 50 Years of Presidential Commercials" » February 17, 2004Feedster Creates Political Feeds
RSS feed search engine Feedster has started a new section designed to aggregate news an opinions for the American presidential elections in November. You're invited to both submit your candidate-supportin' feed and view the aggreate "Feedpapers" at http://www.feedster.com/politics.php . The...
February 10, 2004New York Times Announces Election News Resource
The New York Times has announced a resource for 2004 presidential campaign news. "Times On the Trail" is available at http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/trail/index.html . There's a gratifyin' amount of local news here. On the left part of the front page is a...
Continue reading "New York Times Announces Election News Resource" » February 02, 2004Yahoo Announces a Heapin' Helpin' Of Election Resources
Yahoo has announced a bevy of election 2004 resources, with both news and information resources available. But we'll start with news first. There's a new area within Yahoo news called "Elections 2004," which you can access at http://news.yahoo.com/elections/ . Coverage...
Continue reading "Yahoo Announces a Heapin' Helpin' Of Election Resources" » January 23, 2004Amazon Now Taking Presidential Donations
Yeah, this is off-base, but man is it interesting. Amazon is now letting you donate to US presidential candidates through its Web site. If you go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/misc/flag.html you'll see a list of over a dozen candidates, from Michael Badnarik...
Continue reading "Amazon Now Taking Presidential Donations" » November 19, 2003Get an Early Start on the Elections with GoogleRace
It's not so much scientific as funny, but it is funny. The API application GoogleRace ( http://www.googlerace.com/ ) lets you enter a single search word or a two-word phrase and see where George Bush and the Democratic candidates stack up...
Continue reading "Get an Early Start on the Elections with GoogleRace" » November 13, 2003ResourceShelf Starts Gathering Materials for 2004 Elections
Gary Price has announced his intention to collect reference materials and databases for the 2004 election. You can get his first set of links at http://digbig.com/3fek . Hey Gary: I know you're going to collect a LOT of these. How...
Continue reading "ResourceShelf Starts Gathering Materials for 2004 Elections" » July 16, 2003IRS Makes Database of Political Organizations Available
The Internal Revenue Service has created the Political Organization Filing and Disclosure Website at http://www.irs.gov/charities/political/article/0,,id=109644,00.html. At this site you can both file Form 8871, Political Organization Notice of Section 527 Status, and Form 8872, Political Organization Report of Contributions and...
Continue reading "IRS Makes Database of Political Organizations Available" » March 10, 2003Election Sites from the LOC
The Library of Congress has created the Election 2002 Web Archive, a collection of almost 4,000 sites archived between July 1, 2002 and November 30, 2002. It's available at http://www.loc.gov/minerva/collect/elec2002/ . This site is extremely browsable. Once you've entered,...
November 07, 2002Looking Ahead to 2004 US Elections
If you just can't wait until the next major elections in the US, check out this new service from E-Democracy.us. They've started a new press release and announcement service, which they say will contain announcements from "substantial presidential campaigns" (which...
October 31, 2002Pricegrabbin' for Candidates Before Election Day
Pricegrabber.com, which is better known for retail shopping comparisons, is now offering comparisons of candidates in advance of election day. Visit http://www.priceg rabber.com/election_attrib.php and you'll see what I mean. You'll get a list of the first group of candidates with...
Continue reading "Pricegrabbin' for Candidates Before Election Day" » November 07, 2001Election Reform Information Project Plans Database
The Pew Charitable Trusts has made a three-year, $3.5 million grant to the University of Richmond for the establishment of an Election Reform Information Project. There is already a Web site available at http://electionline.org . Information includes pointers to...
Continue reading "Election Reform Information Project Plans Database" » February 24, 2000Issues index for presidential candidates
If you want position-on-issue information for US presidential candidates, check out http://www.issues2000.org/. They have an extensive, crossindexed database of candidate stances. I found information on John McCain's stance on capital punishment, for example, that I wasn't able to find on...
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