If you wish to study the candidates and the key issues of the 2004 Presidential Election, there are many sites on the World Wide Web that provide useful resources.  Here are a few that may be useful to you in your teaching and research.  Web sites are listed alphabetically.

General Information

Candidate Map.com:  http://www.candidatemap.com/cm/#  This web site presents viewpoints of the major candidates for the presidency (Badnarik, Bush, Kerry, Nader, and Peroutka) on a variety of social issues.  The candidates’ views are presented through quotes from various web sites.

CNN.com Campaign Web Site:  http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/index.html  This web site contains information about the major candidates and the political parties they represent.  Elections for Senators, Congresspersons, and Governors are also covered.

Netscape News:  http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/election2004.jsp  This web site contains news about the election.

New York Times.com Campaign Web Site:  http://www.nytimes.com/politics/campaign/  This New York Times web site provides a number of articles about the presidential election campaign.

Open Secrets.org:  http://www.opensecrets.org/  This web site contains extensive information on campaign financing and its relationship to public policy.  Open Secrets also has a  Presidential Election Page at:  http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/index.asp

Social Workers for Kerry-Edwards:  http://www.socialworkersforkerry-edwards.org/  This site contains information about the Kerry campaign and about voter registration.

Political Party Web Sites

Constitution Party Home Page:  http://www.constitution-party.net/        

            Platform:  http://www.constitution-party.net/party_platform.php

Democratic National Committee Home Page:  http://www.democrats.org/

            Platform:  http://www.democrats.org/platform/index.html

Green Party Home Page:  http://www.gp.org/

            Platform:  http://www.gp.org/platform.html

Independence Party Home Page:  http://www.mnip.org/

Platform:  http://www.mnip.org/platform.htm

Libertarian Party Home Page:  http://lp.org/

            Libertarian Party on Today’s Issues:  http://lp.org/issues/

Republican National Committee Home Page:  http://www.rnc.org/

            Platform:  http://www.rnc.org/gopinfo/platform

Web Sites of the Major Presidential Candidates

Michael Badnerik Campaign Home Page:  http://www.badnarik.org/

George Bush Campaign Home Page:  http://www.georgewbush.com/

John Kerry Campaign Home Page:  http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html

Ralph Nader Campaign Home Page:  http://www.votenader.org/