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| Presidency 2008 For
the first time since 1928, both major parties have open contests
for the Presidential nomination without a sitting President or
Vice President in the running. Politics1 presents a "first
look" at those people being mentioned as possible, likely,
speculative, or draft candidates for President in 2008. LEGEND: REPUBLICAN PARTY:
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) DEMOCRATIC PARTY:
THIRD PARTY and
NOTE:
THE CONSTITUTION PARTY NOMINEES ALSO APPEAR ON SOME STATE BALLOTS
UNDER THE BANNER OF VARIOUS STATE AFFILIATE PARTIES SUCH AS
THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT PARTY (CALIFORNIA), ALASKA INDEPENDENCE
PARTY, THE NEBRASKA PARTY, AND THE INDEPENDENT AMERICAN PARTY
(NEVADA).
GREEN PARTY: Jesse
Johnson (West Virginia) - Actor, filmmaker & '04 Governor
Candidate.
NOTE:
NADER IS SEEKING BALLOT STATUS IN SOME STATUS UNDER THE NAME
OF THE "INDEPENDENT PARTY" (AN ALTER-EGO OF HIS CANDIDACY)
AND IN OTHER STATES AS AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE RUNNING WITH
NO PARTY AFFILIATION.
LIBERTARIAN PARTY: Bob
Barr (Georgia) - Former GOP Congressman, former US
Attorney and former CIA official.
SOCIALIST EQUALITY PARTY: No Candidates Identified To Date
NOTE:
THE SWP WILL ALSO NAME AN ALTERNATE (SURROGATE) SWP PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINEE IN SOME STATES, WHERE NEEDED, AS CALERO WAS NOT U.S.
BORN AND IS NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY QUALIFIED TO BE ON THE BALLOT.
WORKERS WORLD PARTY: No Candidates Identified To Date INDEPENDENT
& WRITE-IN CANDIDATES: Stephen
P. "Steve" Adams (Independent-Kentucky) OTHER RESOURCES: Democracy in Action: P2008 - A great site has lots of detailed information on the 2008 Presidential contest. Published by Eric Appleman of GWU. Eric has been covering the White House races starting with the 2000 elections. Very useful, well balanced. A great resource. Patrick Ruffini: 2008 Presidential Wire - Ruffini -- who was the website designer and Internet strategist for the 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign -- launched this nice news aggregator site in '05 to track all of the news and blog stories on the possible White House candidates from the two major parties. The Next Prez - This blog site tracks lots of the key, mainstream news stories about the various hopefuls. Presidential Primaries 2008 - Another blog site tracking the various hopefuls seeking the Democratic and Republican Presidential nominations. Oval Office 2008 - Not even published in the US, but this site is a good non-partisan blog for tracking news on the 2008 race. Published by Daniel Owens in the UK. New Hampshire Political Library - This site contains just about anything you could ever want to know about the influential New Hampshire Presidential primary -- including a directory of every candidate who ever ran in the NH primary. Maintained by the New Hampshire State Library, Franklin Pierce College, University of New Hampshire, St. Anselm College, the New Hampshire State Archives and the New Hampshire Historical Society. PollingReport.com: White House 2008 - Why bother reinventing the wheel and writing our own poll tracking page when this excellent page already exists. To follow the trends in all of the latest polls in the Presidency 2008 race, simply visit this site. C-SPAN: Road to the White House - Information, links and some streaming video events from one of the nation's leading sources of raw political television coverage. Covers the various likely Presidential candidates. Constantly updated. Ballot Access News - This respected publication -- founded in 1985 by Libertarian activist Richard Winger -- tracks the attempts of third party and independent candidates for various offices to secure ballot access in the 50 states. The site also tracks changes in the law, court challenges and other interesting tidbits of third party news you usually won't find elsewhere. Use this page to stay current on which third party and independent candidates will and won't appear on your state's general election ballot in November 2008 Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Dave Leip prepared this very informative site, which provides historic voting results from the Presidential general elections of 1860-2004 and -- when it rolls around -- the 2008 Presidential primaries. Covers the vote totals for the major party nominees and the top 2 or 3 third party nominees in each race. Colorful maps and graphs, too. Commission on Presidential Debates - Established by leaders of the two major parties to ensure that debates remain a permanent part of every general election, this nonprofit and bipartisan organization sponsored all the general election Presidential debates since 1988. Their controversial and restrictive participation rules largely exclude third party candidates (even the major ones) from participating in these nationally televised debates. One of the groups protesting these restrictions is DebateThis.org. US Department of State: Foreign Press Center - What is the difference between a caucus and a primary? How do nominating conventions work? What about the popular vote versus the electoral college vote? If you need a better understanding of the American Presidential election process, check out this informative site. The State Department runs this site to help inform foreign journalists about how the US political process works. VicePresidents.com - No one pays much attention to Vice Presidents -- or, at least, they didn't used to -- except for these guys. History, trivia, quotes, bios, and more. 4President.org - An online museum of Presidential campaign brochures, bumper stickers and key speches from 1960 through the 2008 campaign. A great site for political junkies. The Living Room Candidate - The American Museum of the Moving Image presents this great online museum of Presidential campaign TV commercials. The ads, which cover every election since 1952 (Ike vs. Stevenson), are an amazing resource. Politics1: P2004 and Politics1: P2000 - Our archived pages from the 2004 and 2000 Presidential races. We're not updating them any longer, but we've kept them online if you're still looking for them. And, yes, we know many of the links there have gone bad ... and that some point to sites that are now pornographic ... but, I'll repeat, we're not updating them anymore. Think of them as sentimental reference points. |
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