Websites For 2008 Presidential Debate Locales

First presidential debate on 26 September, the University of Mississippi at http://www.olemiss.edu/debate/

Vice presidential debate on 2 October, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri at http://debate.wustl.edu/index.php

Second presidential debate on 7 October, Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee at http://www.belmontdebate08.com/

Third presidential debate on 15 October, Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York at http://www.hofstra.edu/debate/

Websites Directly Related to Presidential Debates

Commission on Presidential Debates at http://www.debates.org/
Established in 1987, the Commission on Presidential Debates sponsors and produces debates for the United States presidential and vice presidential candidates. It also conducts research and educational activities related to the debates. In addition to listing criteria for selecting debate participants and locales, the Commission's website includes a brief historical summary of presidential debates and transcripts of the 2000 debates.

The American Presidency Project maintains "Presidential Debates 1960-2008" at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/debates.php
Contains transcripts of both general and primary election debates dating from 1960, including those held in 2008.

PBS's McNeil/Lehrer Productions sponsors "Debating Our Destiny" at
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/index.html
Provides transcripts and film clips of the debates, as well as interviews with thirteen former debate participants about their experience.

MSNBC has compiled "Politics: The Debates" at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18296908/
Connects to debate news and analysis, transcripts, and recordings of the 2008 general and primary campaign.

CNN sponsors a debate page on its "Election Center 2008" at http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/debates/
Includes debate news and analysis, transcripts, and recordings of the 2008 general and primary campaign.

The New York Times coordinates a page on "Presidential Debates" at http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/presidential_debates/index.html
Contains links to selected articles on the 2008 presidential primary and general debates as well as video and transcripts.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications sponsors the website "The Great Debate and Beyond: The History of Televised Presidential Debates" at http://www.museum.tv/debateweb/html/index.htm
Contains transcripts and clips of debates as well as related news stories and essays. Also includes Nielsen television ratings for all debates from 1960 to 2000.

CNN hosts "2000 Election: Debates History" at http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/debates/history/
As part of its 2000 election coverage, CNN created pages online that offer information on presidential debates from 1960 through 1996.

The Museum of the Moving Image sponsors the online exhibit "The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004" at http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/index.php
It contains a searchable database of 250 plus television campaign commercials from 1952 (when the first ads aired) to the present.

EASE History at http://www.easehistory.org/index2.html
Contains a searchable database of 200 plus television campaign ads from 1952 through 2004.

Federal Election Commission at http://www.fec.gov/
Created in 1975, the mission of the FEC is to disclose campaign finance information, to enforce laws on contributions, and to oversee public funding of presidential elections.

Election Assistance Commission at http://www.eac.gov/index_html1
Created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, the Election Assistance Commission oversees the federal government's voting system certification program, serving as a clearinghouse for election administration.

The National Archives maintains an extensive website on the Electoral College at http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/index.html
In addition to up to the minute data on the 2008 election, this site also contains information and statistics on all past elections including electoral votes by state.

The Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives provides official votes counts for federal elections since 1920 at http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/index.html.

American National Election Studies at http://www.electionstudies.org/
Contains extensive data on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History hosts an online exhibit entitled "Vote: The Machinery of Democracy" at http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/index.html
The exhibit explores the evolution of ballots and voting systems in response to political, social, and technological change.

The University of Michigan Document Center maintains "Elections 2008" at http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2008.html
This site provides a wide array of links on campaigns, elections, lobbyists, policy topics, candidates, and political parties.

Images of American Political History at http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/
This site contains over 500 historic images of American politics that are in the public domain and that may be searched through dates or topics.

David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections at http://www.uselectionatlas.org/
Includes an array of interactive maps at the national and state level for both the current and all past elections and includes an electoral college calculator.

The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990 at http://road.hmdc.harvard.edu/
Contains data on election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public on every state from 1984 through 1990. Some sets include data at the precinct level.

NewsLink sponsors Political and Opinion Magazines at http://www.newslink.org/mpol.html
This site offers a searchable database of magazines and full-text articles.

The Annenberg Public Policy Center for the University of Pennsylvania conducts the Annenberg Political Fact Check at http://www.factcheck.org/ Monitors the accuracy of what politicians state in television advertisements, debates, interviews, speeches, and press releases.

Presidential Libraries maintain extensive websites containing historical documents and images:
Herbert Hoover Library at http://www.hoover.nara.gov/
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
Harry S. Truman Library at http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library at http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library at http://www.jfklibrary.org/
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library at http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/
Richard Nixon Library at http://nixon.archives.gov/
Gerald R. Ford Library at http://www.ford.utexas.edu/ Jimmy Carter Library at http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/
Ronald Reagan Library at http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/
George Bush Library at http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/
William J. Clinton Library at  http://www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org/

Polling Data

CBS News Polls at http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/opinion/polls/main500160.shtml.

Gallup Polls at http://www.gallup.com/.

Los Angeles Times Poll at http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/timespoll/.

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press at http://people-press.org/.