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| ABC News | |||
| Their "In Their Own Words" feature presents the candidates speaking on selected issues. | |||
| AFL-CIO | |||
| In addition to "union" concerns, the site also offers positions on globalization, health, education, corporate accountability and civil rights. | |||
| Arab American Institute | |||
| Contains voter guide. Excellent source for the Arab-American p.o.v. on the candidates and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. | |||
| American-Israeli Coopertive Enterprise | |||
| Provides candidates' views on the Middle East. | |||
| Candidates on Guns | |||
| A project of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, the site offers a candidate survey on gun issues as well as voting records and public statements where available. | |||
| CNN: The Issues | |||
| Thorough, though not terribly in-depth. | |||
| Commission on Presidential Debates | |||
| Learn the candidates positions through ranscripts of debates. | |||
| Congress.org | |||
| Their Election 2004 page presents candidates and issues. You can click on the photos, or use the DNET grid through the link just below them. This is also the source of C-Span's candidate information. | |||
| Council on Foreign Relations | |||
| Foreign policy positions, speeches and statements. | |||
| Democracy in Action | |||
| Candidates, Media, the Parties, Interest Groups and the Electorate. | |||
| League of Conservation Voters | |||
| Provides profiles, issues and ranks the candidates on their environmental records and/or proposals. | |||
| NationalIssues.com | |||
| Along the same lines as Public Agenda below, National Issues covers issues, not candidates. We like it for its inclusion of outside articles covering different sides of a particular subject. A very worthwhile place to start one's political education. | |||
| National Public Radio: The 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidates | |||
| The site focuses on a series of Morning Edition interviews with each candidate. At the bottom of the individual candidate pages, along with news stories filed by NPR correspondents are other interviews from NPR programs. This is an excellent source for hearing the candidates in their own words. | |||
| New York Times: Candidate | |||
| NYT offers both the candidates' stands on the issues as well as breaking and archived news. | |||
| On The Issues | |||
| "Every political leader on every issue." You'l find voting records, where applicable, on the issues, as well as ratings of politicians by interest organizations. OTI includes everyone down to the state level. | |||
| Peace Action | |||
| Foreign Policy. | |||
| Political Communication Lab | |||
| Contains a multimedia feature on the candidates in their own words. There are also documents related to past campaigns to 1994, including campaign commercials and other analytical documents. | |||
| Project Vote Smart | |||
| A wide variety of issues for a wide variety of candidates. | |||
| Public Agenda | |||
| While it says nothing about the candidates, PA frames issues vary well. From its home page, go to Issue Guides, pick and issue, and begin with the Discussion Guides. | |||
| Service Employees International Union | |||
| Union-related issues including immigration. | |||
| Vote by Issue | |||
| Fourteen major issues from PBS OnLine News Hour and Bostons WBUR. You can skip the quiz and just go to the "View by Issue" or "View by Candidate" feature. | |||
| WCVB | |||
| The "Boston Channel" is hardly in-depth, but it neatly and quickly sets out the issues in a few simple tables. | |||