Tag Archives: election
Election 2008: Front page news
November of 2006 was a “Blues Fest,” according to the Quad-City Times of Davenport, Iowa.
You might not remember, but that was the election when the democrats won back a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Continue reading
Election 2008: Online Student Voting Site Reviews
Psephophobia is the fear of voting.
Maybe voters are afraid of the small booths, the machines, or the hanging chad. Perhaps young voters just don’t know what to expect.
Whatever their fear, a 2003 study from Representative Democracy in America: Voices of the People found that only 66 percent of 15- 26-year-olds thought voting was part of being a good citizen. Continue reading
Election 2008: Electoral College Road Map and Lesson Plans
My new favorite site for in-depth politics is from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics Director Larry J. Sabato. Sabato calls his site the Crystal Ball and bills itself as the Web’s most accurate political analysis. I’m not qualified to judge that, but I do think the site would be useful in a classroom. Continue reading
Election 2008: Interactive and Cinematic Voting Maps
Voting America, a site from the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, has put together interactive and cinematic maps that illustrate how the states voted in each presidential election from 1840 – 2004.
Cinematic maps. The cinematic maps play like a movie and show how the states have changed in population and politics from the 19th through the 21st centuries. When you select a map series, you can pause, rewind, or fast forward the player. Clicking on the year opens up the Wikipedia entry for that year’s election in a new window. Continue reading
