Presidential Election 2008                                                                                                     

 Multicandidate Issue Comparison Sites

 

• CNN Election 2008 Issues

• New York Times Issues
• BBC News on the Issues
• NPR 2008 Election Issues

• Fact Check  - Annenberg Public Policy Center sponsors this site that evaluates the lies behind the candidates claims.
• On the Issues - Extremely thorough, includes voting records and quotes from candidates on issues.
• Council on Foreign Relations - Nonpartisan Think Tank, covers most issues but extremely strong on foreign policy.
• Geek the Vote 2008 - Popular Mechanics magazine's examination of technology and science issues
• Washington Post Issue Tracker Coverage - "Reviews press coverage and opinion writing on the presidential candidates and the major issues"

• Election 2008: University of Michigan, Govt Documents Library -  Comprehensive Elections website, excellent background information on Policy Issues.

• Vote by Issues - Online NewsHour has compiled statements by the candidates on major issues.
• Grist: How Green Is Your Candidate? - Enviromental issue statements from all candidates
• USA Today: 2008 Presidential Campaign Issues

 

Candidates Official Websites: Issue Page

*pictures from Candidate websites

 

Democratic:

President	Vice President
Senator Barack Obama	Senator Joe Biden

 

 

Republican:

 

 

President	Vice President
Senator John McCain	Governor Sarah Palin

 

 

 

For a Full List of Independent and Third Party Candidates visit Politics1

...Need More Independent Candidate information see Project Vote Smart

 

Databases

Ebsco's Points of View provides authoritative book, magazine and newspaper information about the issues and candidates.

 

Thomson-Gale databases allows you to do a powersearch across 4 databases at once. Narrow down your results by looking at the Subject Headings or doing an Advanced Search with boolean logic.  Try the database Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center to pull up pros and cons on issues. These databases provides a variety of resources including book, magazine, newspaper, primary sources, statistics and multimedia.  Login using the username and password on the back of your ID card.

 

netTrekker is an educational search engine which evaluates websites and has other special features such as a dictionary and read aloud capabilities.  Login and password are on the back of your ID card.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Buttons from the

University of Michigan, Elections 2008

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2008.html/