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Election and Political News |
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November 4, 2008. The Last Day to Register for this election is October 20, 2008. |
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Campaigns & Elections
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Browse issues for the latest news stories and commentaries on both national and local campaigns across the United States!
California News
Search through LexisNexis.
ProQuest Diversity Databases
Search through Alt-PressWatch, Ethnic NewsWatch, and GenderWatch
Lexis-Nexis Newspapers
Lexis Nexis News Transcripts
California Journal (discontinued)
On-Campus Only, available in Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe 1989 to 2004 ONLY.
Search a California political topic or candidate in California Journal, the supreme resource for California politics. Click on "Search this Title, enter your search terms, and then select "Headline and Lead Paragraph" from the selections on the right. Enter dates and time periods for more information. Database is updated as recently as one week ago and goes back to 1989.
Politicalweb.info
http://politicalweb.info/2004/2004.html/
Tracks the various sites provided by the campaigns of presidential candidatesNote: most of the titles below will only lead you to only the current day or somewhere up to the last two weeks for free. Those listed with green will let you know if you can view full text stories in their archives for free, or other methods to see earlier political news of that source
Los Angeles Times: Politics http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/
Includes national and state political news. This site now requires free registration for you to look at the articles.
SF Gate: Politics News
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/
From the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner
Earlier stories dating back to 1996 can be retrieved by you performing a search in Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Mercury Center: Government and Politics News Digest http://www.mercurynews.com/politics
From the San Jose Mercury News
California Capitol Hill Bulletin http://www.calinst.org/Bull.htm
From the California Institute for Federal Policy Research. Published every Thursday evening the California Congress is in session
The link above leads to an archive, dating back to 1997. Scroll down to the bottom of the page
for a search engine for all of its archives
Sacramento Bee--Politics (formerly Capitol Alert) http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/
Washington Post: On Politics http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
CNN/All Politics http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/
From the cable network. Also contains political news stories from the magazine, Time (bottom of page)
Contains archives dating back to 1996
Yahoo! News--Politics--Elections http://news.yahoo.com/elections
From Yahoo!, provides the latest news stories regarding election campaigns from local, state, and national levels.
AP Elections http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=548
Elections: AP Gubernatorial http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=511
Elections: AP State/Local http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=616
Elections: AP Senate http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=683
Stateline.org -- Elections
http://www.stateline.org/live/issues/Elections
From stateline.org, a strong portal to news stories and web sites related to issues in individual states
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
http://www.politicalwire.com/
Contains a good collection of current news stories from different newspapers and media resources of current political news. Includes links to significant postings to political blogs (both left-wing ("Southpaws") and right-wing ("Wingers))
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This web site was last updated on September 26, 2008.
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Norman Buchwald, Information Literacy and Technology Librarian.
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