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Issue 2, Volume 5; September, 2002
Produced and delivered by Political Resources, Inc.
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| CONTENTS |
| 1. You Asked For It |
| 2. Political Web Sites to Explore 3. Politics 2002 4. Practical Political Web Sites 5. Job Opportunities 6. Candidates On-Line |
| POLITICAL WEB SITES TO EXPLORE: Fast Politics, as the name implies is a
Site of click throughs. Political News headlines, State by State Political News, Breaking
news sites and Net News locations. There are also click throughs to Opinion Polls, major
newspapers a nice assortment of political commentators, and hundreds more. |
| POLITICS 2002 Check out the DNC flash movie, a graphic depiction of the Social Security issue that is being aired. RNC Chair Marc Racicot called it "beyond offensive". A DNC spokesperson called the piece "a humorous depiction of a serious problem". ABC Watchdog 2002 Calling themselves a truth squad for political communications, ABC is encouraging the public to report deceptive political advertising in radio, direct mail, email, internet, telephone solicitations, pamphlets and fliers. They have also included a guide to judging misleading advertising. The California Gubernatorial race between the incumbent Governor Gray Davis (D) and Bill Simon (R) is heating up on-line. The Simon campaign has a parody site that targets Gov. Gray Davis' policy of corporations and individuals paying for favorable governmental action. The NJ Senatorial race has a new old face. Former Senator Frank Lautenberg (D) (under construction) has replaced Sen. Bob Torricelli (D) who withdrew from the race. Lautenberg faces Doug Forrester (R) on the November ballot. Check out the NJ GOP ad on the current battle. This is a parody site lampooning the President. It has the full array of articles, cartoons, petitions to sign, products to buy and an extensive list of links. GoodbyeCynthia.com is an example of the power of the web as one element in the independent campaign to oust an incumbent Congresswoman - Rep. Cynthia McKinney (GA). She lost the August 20th Democratic Primary. The site is still up and worth a look. Rice2008 is the unofficial grassroots effort to generate excitement about a Condoleezza Rice presidency. First step - should Dick Cheney decide not to run again in 2004, President Bush will tap Dr. Rice as his VP. Next step is a presidential run in 2008. There's an extensive biography, past speeches, reports and numerous articles about her. Politicalweb.info tracks 2002 campaign sites on a weekly basis. Data on current and new web sites is provided. The Site charts the types of information, types of links, etc. If you want to know how many campaigns are doing what, this is the Site to check out. The project is sponsored by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. State Decisions 2002 covers all 50 states. This well organized site features candidates for Governor, Lt. Governor and Attorney's General with links to campaign websites. Of particular interest is a complete list of statewide ballot questions. |
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| Local Party Web Sites : Local party web sites. We have a page for local party web sites. This will be an on-going project including County and Local Sites, Clubs and University Sites. Please feel free to add your sites to the list. It can be searched by Party and by State JOB OPPORTUNITIES: Candidates On-Line - We already have more than 800 candidate URLs. Send us your campaign URL to add to this growing list. CLICK HERE |
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