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2016 ELECTION RESOURCES

The Candidates

Who is Running for President? - New York Times 
Meet the Candidates - Scholastic

Candidate Websites 
these are the candidates' own websites presenting information the way they want you to see it.

DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES
Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES

Ted Cruz
John Kasich
Marco Rubio
Donald Trump

Which Candidate to You Agree With?
iSideWith.com
USA Today's Candidate Match Game 
Pew Research Center Political Party Quiz

Your Voices
Scholastic 

Student News Sources
Scholastic magazine: This has a mix of news stories, an electoral college map, and interactive games. There are video features, too.
Brainpop's election center: This has a bunch of videos. Reember you can access them with the username WMSlibrary and password RAIDERS.
Time for Kids: They will have some election coverage, written for middle school students.
CNN Student News: CNN creates a 5 minute news program every weekday. It will have some politics coverage and some added explanation of things like the "unemployment rate".

Tracking the Election
The New York Times Electoral Map
Huffington Post Election Dashboard 

Poll-Watching: 
Huffington Post Pollster
Politico 

Twindex - a tracking tool that compares Twitter posts about the presidential candidates.

The Issues


ProCon.org. The site provides quotations from Mr. Obama, Mr. Romney and the major third party candidates on more than 60 issues.

PBS Kids: The Democracy Project

Wikipedia - Wikipedia is a good place to go for exploratory research on a topic.  Be careful when using it for more in-depth information as you can't always tell where the info is coming from!

Candidate Commercials
The Living Room Candidate: presidential campaign videos from 1952-2012
NYT Commercial Analysis Chart
FlackCheck.org:  
  • “Could Lincoln Be Elected Today?” negative advertising series. 
  • “Taking Down the Worst” egregious inaccuracies in current campaign commercials

Election Opinion Questions:
NYT Learning Network: Student Opinion Question (every day during the school year they post a student opinion question, some of which will be election related, such as “How Would the Presidential Campaigns Change if the Voting Age Were 13?”
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Other News Sources
FiveThirtyEight Blog: All kinds of analysis of polls, simulated elections, and interesting things to learn about the math behind all this election talk. Look around the site, as there is a lot there.

CNN : CNN has a reputation of being more favorable to Democratic candidates. Look for that perspective as you examine what they focus on and how they do it. This gets you to the home page, click on the politics tab for more coverage.

Fox News: Fox News has a reputation of being more favorable to Republican candidates. Look for that perspective as you examine what they focus on and how they do it. his gets you to the home page, click on the politics tab for more coverage.

Politico: This website has daily coverage of a lot of political stories. For good and for bad, the sight covers politics like a "sport"- the good part is that it is exciting, but the bad part is many of the articles focus more on the strategy and consequences of things going on rather than going in depth on the issues themselves.

CSPAN:  Lots of video andtext coverage here from the cable channel that covers political news. It can be fairly in depth--look at the categories at the bottom of the main page. 


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    • About Us >
      • About the Library >
        • General Rules
      • Acceptable Use Policy
      • Calendar
      • Mission Statement
      • Orientation >
        • 6th Orientation
        • 7th & 8th Orientation
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    • Boston Public Library
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  • Books
    • Best Books 2021
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      • Book Trailers >
        • 6th Grade Book Trailers
        • 8th Grade Book Trailers
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      • The Literate Mother
    • Book Madness
    • eBooks
    • Book Chats
    • Book Recommendations >
      • Book Lists
      • Recommendations
      • Breakfast & Booktalks >
        • B&B 2017
        • B&B 2015
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        • B&B 2013
        • B&B 2012
        • B&B 2011
        • B&B 2010
        • B&B 2009
        • B&B 2008
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      • How to use MyBib
      • Printing
      • How to Use SORA
    • MyBib
    • Project Links >
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        • Astronomy Expo
        • Holy Places Mini project
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      • Eighth >
        • Civics Project
        • House Unplugged
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    • Vocab Games
  • Summer Reading
    • Summer Reading 2022
    • Past Years >
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  • Sweet of the States