US-Elections 2008 on the Net

http://www.nytimes.com
The New York Times covers the elections extensively. I recommend it highly, it is still one of the best papers in the world, the online version is excellent. The internal search engine will help you to research any and all aspects of the campaign.

http://www.barackobama.com
Barack Obama’s campaign website offers information on his platform organized by issues, transcripts of all his speeches and some fun, short behind-the-scenes video clips.

http://www.johnmccain.com
John McCain’s website is similarly organized. Again, this is a great start-off point for research.

Bloggers are an ever-growing phenomenon in the media world. It takes a little while to find your way around the blogs, but it’s time well spent. You’ll get a lot of interesting perspectives. http://www.dailykos.com is a very well-known blog on the left side of the spectrum. The Drudge Report http://www.drudgereport.com/ is the oldest conservative blog – Drudge was the one to break the news on Monica Lewinsky, the intern who had an affair with Bill Clinton.

The three national networks ABC http://abcnews.go.com/politics, NBC www.nbc.com
and CBS www.cbs.com offer all their newscasts on video. Check out their respective late-night shows – it’s often very funny (e.g. the top ten pick-up lines at the Democratic National Convention on David Letterman, August 27th). I like Jon Stewart the best. You can watch his Daily Show in full length on http://www.thedailyshow.com/.

The only national public station, PBS, offers a podcast of ‘The News Hour with Jim Lehrer’ , probably the most thorough, balanced and sober newscast you’ll find on American TV. http://www.pbs.org/

For a break after listening to Jim Lehrer, google ‘Obama girl’.