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The American Presidential Election (Britannica Spotlight)
Britannica's exhibit of U.S. presidential history and the electoral process includes biographies and portraits of all the presidents and vice presidents, a full tally of electoral and popular votes (including mapped state-by-state results of each election), articles that explain how a chief executive is chosen and how the procedure has changed over time, the complete text of every inaugural address, and nearly 100 additional speeches and writings, including several audio clips.

Democratic Values (Britannica Learning Materials Activity)
In this activity, you’re going to explore a web site on Core Democratic Values and then create your own “notebook” and learn about the seven core democratic values.

Political Parties in the United States
Enclyclopeida Article, Videos, Maps and Images

The Electoral College (Primary Search Database, Junior Scholastic Article)
The Framers of the U.S. Constitution devised an indirect system for electing the President and Vice President. This system is the Electoral College, read the article and study the map.
To read full text click on PDF Article

PROFILES OF CANDIDATES
Presents brief biographies of U.S. President George W. Bush and his nine Democratic challengers. Issues of the Bush presidency; Criticism of Bush by Democrats; Career highlights of Bush, General Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, John R. Edwards, Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Lieberman, Carol Moseley Braun and the Reverend Al Sharpton.

Presidential Campaign 2004 (Special Reports)
Learn all about the 2004 Presidential Campaign: Current up to date articles, debates, political statagies, related Maps, websites and much more. To get to this special report sign onto NewsBank, then select Presidential Campaign 2004

Social Studies Project: What does it take to be a good President?
(KidsPage Project) In this project you have been hired by the Committee to Elect Susan Senator. Create a campaign poster for her presidential election drive. Your poster should include pictures (and/or graphics) and words. It should convince the voters that Ms. Senator is a qualified and outstanding candidate. Use your research from the last step to help you. Include Ms. Senator's best characteristics and experiences.

National Hispanic Heritage Month (Special Report)
Read about Important Issues, Events/Eventos y temas importantes,
Culture/Cultura, Historical Figures and Leaders/Líderes y figuras históricas, maps, and websites.

Global Issues News Letter
NewsBank Global Issues is provided as part of your NewsBank subscription to alert librarians, patrons, teachers and students to global topics found in NewsBank products.