SOCY2000 Social Issues --Prof. Backman

Fall 2004

Candidate Comparison Assignment.

For this assignment you are to pick a social problem and then find and analyze the positions of the two leading presidential candidates on the problem.

A look at the issues and positions in general:

CNN – Politics Section
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/ America Votes 2004.

{issues and convention speeches}

Project Vote-Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org/
{special interest groups}

Party Platforms

Democratic National Committee
http://www.democrats.org/

Republican National Committee
http://www.gop.com/SiteMap.aspx

Budget
http://www.treas.gov/

Speeches and Newspaper Articles
Library Web Page—Find Articles and Databases---Newspaper Databases

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/articles.html

Use Lexis Nexis and Newsbank.

Political Advocacy Groups
http://www.csuchico.edu/~kcfount/