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Political Science Courses for SPS.
PSC 311 for SPS: Voters, Parties & Elections, Online Resources for Accelerated SPS course
Taught during Fall Session III (on Thursdays): November - December 2006
By Jeremy Lewis.  Revised 15 Oct.  Links have now been adjusted for SPS folder.
Agenda | Resources | Syllabus | Tracking Progress | Weekly Objectives
  • Links: Time | Newsweek | US News | NY Times | Washington Post |
  • Contents: Web fun | Electoral college maps | online articles | poll analysis | Online videos | videos
  • Web fun:
  • JibJab election 'Toons.
  • Online Political Quotes Game (Wadsworth)
  • The Four Parachutes joke, campaign '04 [PPS] (no comment intended!)
  • Online TX Redistricting Simulation (Wadsworth)
  • Drag images '04: Kerry; Edwards; Bush; Cheney.
  • Electoral college maps:
  • http://www.electoral-vote.com/states/alabama.htm
  • http://www.electoral-vote.com/ US map '04 by poll data
  • Recommended online articles for further interest:
  • Avi Rubin, "Perils of Electronic Voting", San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2004. [Local] or: Johns Hopkins Information Security Inst. archive
  • CBS News, Report on Coverage of Election Night 2000 (pub. 2001) see summary pages
  • Laurie Goodstein, "Fewer see GOP as `friendly to religion'", Birmingham News, 5 Sep. '06, New York Times News Service, via AL.com
  • Green, "Karl Rove in a Corner," Atlantic Monthly: Rove's strategy for Perry Hooper, '94, AL.
  • RF Kennedy Jr, "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" Rolling Stone, 1 June '06 [Local]
  • Election '04 Results summary.
  • Analysis by Cindy Barnes Hayden '99
  • Recommended online sources of poll analysis:
  • New York Times Poll Watch index
  • Thomson's midterm election guide (analysis plus state maps of close races)
  • ABC News, YouGov and Pew Center tables, Sep. '04
  • Robert Pear, "The Ad Campaign: Is the Incumbent Too Close to Bush?", NY Times, 17 Sep. '06, with video of Nancy Johnson's CT 5th race [print] [page]
  • Gallup Poll, 8 Sep. on salient issues [watch commercial to get article free]

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  • Recommended online videos on current political campaigns (may be shown in class, equipment permitting)
  • NY Times videos index about Washington Politics
  • NY Times videos index of TV spots in 2006 elections
  • Video ads by Democrats, New York Times
  • Luther Strange for AL Lt Gov., 2006 campaign TV spots
  • Same TV spot for two candidates, says Mgm Advertiser
  • Recommended videos for further interest (some are available in HC's library):
  • Index to notes on videos
  • PBS, Chicago Democratic Convention '68 (protesters)
  • PBS, Candidates series (term paper resource)
  • PBS, The Choice series, 2004 (excellent series on presidential races.)
  • Third Presidential Debate '04, Domestic Policy.
  • PBS, "Forty Years of Presidential Debates"
  • Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11, humorous (and outrageous) polemic.
  • Mike Nichols, Primary Colors (1998); fictionalized account of the Clinton 1992 campaign.
  • documentary, The War Room [Clinton, 1992]