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How Do Caucuses Work?

This essay explains how caucuses work, and outlines the differences between presidential primaries and caucuses, which are both "a means for each political party to let voters nationwide select their party's presidential nominee." The Iowa ...

http://people.howstuffworks.com/question721.htm

Iowa Caucus 2008

Official website for the Iowa Caucus, in which political party members gather in January to make policy decisions and to select candidates, and which is the earliest step in the electoral process for U.S. presidential candidates. Provides background ...

http://www.iowacaucus.org/

United States Election Project

Website for this project, which "is an information source for the United States electoral system. The mission of the project is to provide timely and accurate election statistics, electoral laws, research reports, and other useful information regard ...

http://elections.gmu.edu/

Sussex County Return Day

Website for this over 200-year-old biennial event in Georgetown, Delaware, in which "winning and losing candidates from Election Day 2008 (November 4) ride together in open horse drawn carriages and antique automobiles," and former politica ...

http://www.returnday.org/

A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787-1825

"A New Nation Votes is a searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy." Find voting results by candidate, office, state, and year (1787-1825) for elections for governor, president, senators, and re ...

http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/aas_portal/

Government Redistricting Web Sites

The decennial population census is followed by Congressional redistricting in every state. This is a collection of links to individual state redistricting information, as well as to the U.S. Census Bureau and National Conference of State Legislatures ...

http://www.lib.purdue.edu/govdocs/redistricting.html

Past Convention Coverage

News and photo essays on the Republican and Democratic presidential nominating conventions for 1896 -1996. The first Democratic national nominating convention was held in 1832. "The Republicans' first convention as a national party was held in 1 ...

http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/whouse/convention-ra.html

Retelling Tales of Contentious Conventions

2004 feature about recent contentious Republican and Democratic presidential nominating conventions. Features stories and audio related to the 1952 Republican convention in which Dwight D. Eisenhower was selected, the 1968 Democratic convention and C ...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3613724

Republican & Democratic Convention History (1856-2008)

"This page links to resources about the history of the Republican and Democratic national political conventions" at which the presidential candidates are selected. Browse through conventions by party and date. Compiled by David Shedden, Lib ...

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=49&aid=68171

Politically Connected: Political Conventions

News and analysis related to the September 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC) in Minneapolis-Saint Paul and the August 2008 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver. Topics include protester routes and times at the RNC, an RNC bicycle sh ...

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/conventions/

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