With our state's primary just around the bend, it is becoming even more impossible to avoid catching the political spirit. We Pennsylvanians no longer have to watch from the campaign's sidelines. Whether or not you can vote, though, now is the perfect time to brush up on the candidates' platforms and the voting process. These Internet sites are a convenient way to do just that.
1. www.politics2008.com
Complete with election-related social networking, information about candidates and well-organized links to other helpful sites, this so-called "center of elections" lives up to its title.
2. www.factcheck.org
The Annenberg Political Fact Check is the prime destination for no-nonsense, non-partisan analysis of the validity of claims made during the campaign process. The folks who run this Web site take honesty seriously and are ready to answer your questions.
3. www.votehelp.org
This site offers a quiz that tells you who your ideal candidate is based on how much you agree or disagree with a certain statement and how much importance you assign each particular statement. Making this quiz more user-friendly than many of the others, questions are presented in sets of topics ranging from broad to specific so that you can conclude and see your results after any set.
4. www.cfr.org/campaign2008
The Council on Foreign Relations' election page is all about foreign policy issues. Though certain aspects of international politics (e.g. Iraq) are indeed a part of the campaign discourse, there are numerous issues that receive significantly less attention. This site lays bare the candidates' views on all sorts of foreign concerns.
5. www.openthegovernment.org Though the site was developed for the purpose of unveiling government secrecy, a click on the 2008 election link on the left side of its home page leads to a wealth of information about the voting process.
6. www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/ It's CNN. Enough said.
7. www.youtube.com/youchoose YouTube is home to all of the campaign-related videos you could ever hope to watch.
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