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OVERVIEW

Campaign '96

THEMES

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This page provides one view of the information available to you, either at this site or at other World Wide Web sites. The information is structured in a way that is meant to help you begin thinking about the components necessary for building a successful national campaign, from the basics of identifying your candidate and goals to the mechanics of financing and running a campaign. In each category, local sources - that is, information available at this site - are listed first, followed by resources of information available on the Web.

Where the links on this page will take you...

LINK LEGEND
	a local link to other pages on this site. The site map on the 3PT help page lists all the documents at this site and shows their relationship to one another.
	an external link to current pages at other sites.

...and what you'll find when you get there.

SITE FEATURES
	site offers free access to full text of archival material.
	site restricts access to archives. This usually means that you can call up a list of headlines but will be asked to pay a fee for full text of articles.
	site is searchable.
	a particularly useful site for this assignment

CONTENTS

Basics

Strategy

Candidates

Parties

Message

Issues

Market

The Electorate

Mechanics

Electoral Process

Ballot Access

Media

Money

Allies

BASICS

| STRATEGY | CANDIDATES | PARTIES |

STRATEGY

Local Sources

PRIMARY

SECONDARY

Web Resources

• Campaigns and Elections Magazine Home Page
• GoverNet
• Political Consulting from Yahoo

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CANDIDATES

Local Sources

Web Resources

INDEPENDENT/THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES

• Presidential Election Web Archive '96
  from the non-profit Internet Archive archives of candidate and party web sites for the months of February, March, and April, 1996.
• Presidential Candidate Information from Project Vote Smart
• Presidential Candidates
  quite a complete hotlist from Campaign '96, a site put up by NetWorkers, a web consulting firm.
• Presidential Candidates from Yahoo

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PARTIES

Local Sources

Web Resources

THIRD PARTIES

• Prohibition: Box 2635, Denver, CO 80201. (303) 572-0646.
• Socialist: 516 W. 25th St., #404, New York, NY 10001. (212) 691-0776.
• Socialist Workers
• Workers World
• Socialist Equality features party publication "International Workers Bulletin".
• American: 47 E. Kensington Av., Salt Lake City, UT 84115. (800) 456-8683.
• Libertarian
• Grassroots
• U.S. Taxpayers
• Green hotlist of links to local Green Parties and Nader for President pages.
• Natural Law
• Peace and Freedom
• Reform
• AIDS Cure: 825 5th St. NE #A, Washington, DC, 20002. (202) 547-6780.
• Independent Grassroots (Minnesota) No information available.
• Independent Party of Utah No information available.

• Communist
• Constitution
• Democratic Socialists of America
  • see Socialist Family Tree at this site for a geneology of the U.S. socialist movements since 1900.
• Labor
• Light
• New Party
• Progressive Labor
• Social Democrats
• Socialist
• Patriot
• Third Parties '96 an alliance of 26 third parties

Indices

• Independent/Third Parties from Yahoo!
• UseNet Political Parties and Ideological Discussion Groups from Project VoteSmart

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MESSAGE

ISSUES

Local Sources

Web Resources

• Issues '96
  a collaboration by the New York Times and National Public Radio focusing on significant issues in the fall election campaign. Extensive reportage and background documentation presented in an approachable format
• Atlantic Unbound - The Issues
  articles from the magazine with related links
• Citizen's Toolbox
  U.S.News Online backgrounder on a wide variety of issues
• Project Vote Smart Issue Information
  a collection of candidates' responses to the Project VoteSmart "National Political Awareness Test"

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MARKET

THE ELECTORATE

Local Sources

PRIMARY

SECONDARY

Web Resources

• Data on the Net
  a searchable database of Internet sites offering numeric social science data, also browsable by category, maintained by Social Sciences Data Collection, UC San Diego
• Kennedy School Library's Guide to Information Sources: US Statistical Data
  lists titles available at the library

• American National Election Studies (NES)
  • see especially The NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
• Bureau of the Census Data Access Tools
  • MapStats profiles of states and counties
  • 1990 Census Lookup
  • Thematic Mapping Service
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Regional Economic Information Sources

• American Demographics
  the home page of American Demographics magazine, offering a selection of articles that include data and analysis
• Data Sources -- US Government Sites
  a list maintained by the Data and Program Library Service of the University of Wisconsin
• The Women's Monitor
  a national survey of women voters conducted by Emily's List
• The Gallup Organization
• Government Information Sharing Project
  Oregon State University provides economics, demographics, and education statistics via hot-linked maps
• New York Times/CBS News Poll
  index of full text of New York Times articles covering polling throughout the campaign season
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  the world's largest social science data archive housed within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Some datasets available online.
• The Journal of Electoral Studies
• Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
  includes summaries of monthly surveys on the Presidential campaign
• Survey Research Center
  Princeton University
• UCSD Social Science Studies Center, see in particular:
  • Data on the Net
  • Mass Behavior and Attitudes
• USA Today - Polls and Attitudes
  archive of election polls from this daily newspaper
• US Election Map Bank
  from WorldMedia, provides a thematic map interface to a database of 1988 and 1992 presidential election results broken down by county
• Washington Infobank: Polls and Surveys Online
  from U.S. News and World Report
• The White House Briefing Room
  latest government economic and social statistics compiled on the White House web site

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MECHANICS

| ELECTORAL PROCESS | BALLOT ACCESS | MEDIA | MONEY | ALLIES |

ELECTORAL PROCESS

Local Sources

PRIMARY

SECONDARY

Web Resources

• Electoral College Home Page
  a wealth of information about the Electoral College from the federal government's National Archives and Records Administration
• Electoral College Calculator
  for Java-capable browsers only, an "applet" that allows you to calculate keep a running tally of electoral college votes based on your estimate of state-by-state election outcomes

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BALLOT ACCESS

Local Sources

PRIMARY

SECONDARY

Web Resources

• Ballot Access News

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MEDIA

Local Sources

PRIMARY

SECONDARY

Web Resources

• AllPolitics
  Pathfinder (TimeWarner) "full-service Web site dedicated to politics in the digital age..." with daily updates and email reportage not available in print media from CNN and Time. [archives are currently being updated]
• CQ's American Voter
  Congressional Quarterly, Inc. web site, launched as a campaign '96 site, now features current news (only) and hotlists of poli/gov sites.

• CBS Campaign '96 [archive begins Aug. 96]
• Election 1996
  from the Washington Connection section of U.S.News and World Report. Site is no longer extent but the search page gives access to significant articles and polling dating to the beginning of the campaign season.
• Los Angeles Times Archives
• 1996 Gen X Presidential Forum
  sponsored by the Internet Herald, a monthly web-zine of news and commentary for those born between 1963 and 1983.
• MoJo Election '96: Race for the Whitehouse
  Mother Jones Magazine online
• The New York Times
  features most of the contents of the daily edition and search capability for some archival content.
• Online Newshour
  transcripts, on-line forums, and backgrounders on key issues from PBS's "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer". Extensive campaign coverage.
• Mercury Center VoterLink
  election coverage archive from San Jose Mercury News. Scroll to bottom of page to view primary coverage.
• USAToday Election '96
  index of news articles from the daily newspaper
  a search engine is also available for this site.
• U.S. News Online/Election '96
  use the search engine to gain access to archived materials of this online edition of U.S. News & World Report
• Washington Post
  soon to offer search of archives to 1986.

• Campaign Central
  Losser and Associates (political consulting firm)
• Campaign '96 Online
  NetWorkers (web consulting firm) includes list of all presidential candidates
• NewPolitics
  a "non-Partisan U.S. political participation resource" maintained by Chicago-based internet service provider Essential Presence.
• Election.com
  Election information from, The World, a Massachusetts Internet Service Provider, the first to carry election results on-line in 1990. Site is frozen as of November,1996, and carries articles dating back to September, 96.
• Election Nexus
  Michael Gonzalez (formerly Election '96)
• Project VoteSmart 1996 Presidential Campaign
  Archive of comprehensive responses by broad range of presidential candidates to VoteSmart's National Political Awareness Test.
• Publius '96
  itinerant journalist Scott Johnson's eclectic reportage on the stories of "ordinary Americans" in the '96 campaign year.
• WhiteHouse '96
  a list of links to campaign '96 sites archived by Prof. Avi Bass, Northern Ill. Univ.

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MONEY

Local Sources

PRIMARY

SECONDARY

Web Resources

• FECInfo "The non-partisan Federal candidate campaign money page"
• FEC Web Federal Election Commission,
  • Financing the 1996 Presidential Campaign
  • Federal Election Commission Gopher
• Campaign '96: The Money Chase
• FEC Rules from Open Secrets
• So You Want to Buy a President? PBS Frontline on campaign finance (airdate: Jan. 30, 1996).

• Officeholders
  • Congressional Quarterly VoteWatch gives forms-based access to Congressional voting records
  • Project VoteSmart information about voting records and positions on key issues of members of Congress.
• Organizations and Groups
  • KSG OPIN: Advocacy, Political, Trade and Non-Profit Associations
  • Public Policy and Interest Groups, a page of links to interest groups broken into 15 major policy categories, provided by St. Martin's Press.

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