A List of Campaign Related Web Sites
Updated 8/6/08

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Generally Informative Sites	Money in Politics: How do we track it?
Polling	Negative campaign? What Negative Campaign?
National Party Sites	On-Line Campaigning -- What is the internet bringing?
Presidential Campaign Sites	State and Local Candidate Campaign Sites

Generally Informative Sites (Back to Top) Prof. Paul Herrnson of the Univ of Maryland has some extremely useful links on his site -- including a comprehensive guide to the kind of information you will want to look at to get a full picture of campaigns especially at the Congressional level. There are a ton of political blogs out there nowadays. Take a look at ABCNEWS.COM.

Living Room Candidate Campaign ads from 1952 to 2004. Absolutely fascinating	Spinsanity Efforts by some Duke grad students to challenge the "spin" by all candidates. They did this during the 2004 campaign and then closed it down in 2005. But lots of good stuff is still there!
Fact Check This site claims to "hold politicians accountable"! It's by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of PA	CSPAN Election 2008 Coverage Online Lots of information, including this yuear's campaign ads. You can also check out ads from the 2004 presidential election.
Project Vote Smart Learn about the candidates for state & national offices	More Campaign Ads A site which points you to ads from many many campaigns and many many years
D.C.'s Political Report Lots of details about campaigns all over the country	Campaign Conduct American Univ. site dedicated to the improvement of campaign conduct
Iowa Electronic Mkt You can bet REAL MONEY on the election	World's Smallest Political Quiz See where you stand, courtesy of Libertarians
UI Communication Studies A GREAT web page listing all kinds of political advertising resources	PoliticalWeb.Info These folks tracked how the web was used in campaigns during the 2002 cycle

Polling (Back to Top) PBS Election Website PBS's site designed to foster a better understanding of Democracy. Here's a link to an article about understanding polling. The Gallup Organization Home of the world famous Gallup Poll! PollingReport.Com An online source for some current national polling numbers Pollster.com An online source for some current national polling numbers

National Political Party Web Sites (Back to Top)
The Democrats Here's the Web Site for the Democratic National Committee	The Republicans Here's the Web Site for the Republican National Committee
The Greens Here's the Web Site for the Green Party USA	The Libertarian Party Here's the Web Site for the Libertarians

Presidential Candidate Sites (Back to Top)

John McCain (Republican)	Barack Obama (Democrat)
Bob Barr (Libertarian)	Cynthia McKinney (Green)
Ralph Nader (I)

Attack Campaigns hit the Web! (Back to Top)

Tracking the Role of Money in Politics(Back to Top) These sites are both official governmental sites and unofficial sites designed to help us understand the role of money in the political campaigns.

Fundrace.org Way COOL! You can put in any address and see who has donated to whom in that neighborhood!	Responsive Politics This web site makes the FEC data actually useful! These are the OPENSECRETS.ORG people
Federal Election Commission Overseeing Federal campaign finance rules.	Campaign Finance Institute These folks track MONEY in federal campaigns.
Iowa's Campaign Finance Board These folks oversee ethics and campaign finance in Iowa.	The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act The CFI has an EXCELLENT online guide to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act on their web site. READ IT!

Common Cause is a one organization actively pushing for Campaign Finance reform. Their web site has an excellent summary of the Federal laws on campaign contributions. They also have a series of studies about campaign finance which you can review. You'll also want to go straight to the horse's mouth by examining the Federal Election Commission's Web Site.

Johnson County Republicans County Republican Organization	Johnson County Democrats County Democratic Organization
Johnson County Green Party County Green Party Organization
	Lonny Pulkrabek (D) Sheriff
	Rod Sullivan (D) Supervisor
	Terrence Neuzil (D) Supervisor
	Pat Harney (D) Supervisor
Christopher Reed (R) US Senate	Tom Harkin (D) US Senate
Marianette Miller-Meeks (R) US Congress (IA 2)	David Loebsack(D) US Congress (IA 2)

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