Link of the Week: Jan. 27 - Feb. 2
Presidential Elections Online
Are you voting for Diane Templin for US President in 2004? How about Michael Peroutka? If you haven’t heard of these candidates, you may want to get some of your 2004 Elections news from the Internet. You simply can’t rival the Web when it comes to depth and breadth of election coverage. Here is a smattering of interesting and informative ones.

The 2004 US Presidential Election: A View from the Web is an analysis of the sites operated by Democratic and Republican candidates by researchers affiliated with WebArchivist.org at the University of Washington and SUNY Institute of Technology. The site makes it easy to jump to key pages of sites operated by the candidates, and to compare one candidate’s Web presence to another’s.

Ron Gunzburger’s politics1.com site bills itself as “The Most Comprehensive Online Guide to American Politics.” It just may be. He says that “if they're running for President in 2004 (or even thinking about running), you can find them ALL here,” and indeed he does have dozens of present and former candidates listed.

Project Vote Smart is a more information-oriented site, with links to candidate voting records, dates of state primaries and plenty more. They also have quick links to the most extensive list of political parties I’ve seen, including the National Barking Spider Resurgence Party and the Veteran’s Industrial party.

Leave it to the US Census site to provide a statistical guide to election coverage and recent election trends. For example, you can view recent voter turnout nationally and at the state level.

And, if your voter registration information is not up to date, you can get information on how to register at most or all of the above sites!

Nonprofits Online
View our latest links page for nonprofits here.

Media Forum Links
The handouts that were distributed by journalists at our media forum are online. Journalist contact information is posted also, if you want to follow up with any of the people you met at the forum (or if you live in the Asheville area and want to see what you missed!).

Link/Article of the Week Archives
For your convenience, we've begun archiving past weeks' featured links and articles.

The Missing Link
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