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Campaign Money
Learning Objective: 11-4: Summarize the role of campaigns in elections.

About 270 to Win Interactive Electoral College Map
Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the logic of elections in a democracy.

The Swing States Over Time
Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the logic of elections in a democracy.

Guide to Super PACs
Learning Objective: 11-4: Summarize the role of campaigns in elections.

Washington Post 2012 Presidential Campaign Finance Explorer
Learning Objective: 11-4: Summarize the role of campaigns in elections.

How Stephen Colbert Taught America About Super PACs
Learning Objective: 11-4: Summarize the role of campaigns in elections.

Video

2014 Congressional Midterms
Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the logic of elections in a democracy; 11-4: Summarize the role of campaigns in elections.

The U.S. Electoral College, Explained
Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the logic of elections in a democracy.

Voting Behavior
Learning Objective: 11-3: Discuss the factors that affect how people vote.

Questions to consider:

1. What are some attributes that make individuals more likely to be voters?
2. Identify some of the institutional factors affecting turnout discussed in the video.
    

Obama 2008: How to Caucus
Learning Objective: 11-3: Discuss the factors that affect how people vote.

Drive-Through Voting?
Learning Objective: 11-3: Discuss the factors that affect how people vote.

Questions to consider:

1. What do you think? Should more states and cities adopt drive through voting? What other methods could be used to encourage more people to vote?
    

Oregon Passes Automatic Voter Registration
Learning Objective: 11-3: Discuss the factors that affect how people vote.

Questions to consider:

1. What do you think? Should all residents of Oregon be automatically registered to vote when they receive their licenses? Do you think that this institutional change will have a positive effect on turnout in elections in Oregon?
    

The Colbert Report: Colbert Super PAC
11-4: Summarize the role of campaigns in elections.
 

Web resources

Elections and Voting
Learning Objective: 11-1: Explain the logic of elections in a democracy.

A Dream Undone
Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe how different segments of American society obtained the right to vote.

Statutes Enforced by the Voting Section
Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe how different segments of American society obtained the right to vote.

National Woman’s Party
Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe how different segments of American society obtained the right to vote.

Justice Department Voting Rights Proposal for Native Americans
Learning Objective: 11-2: Describe how different segments of American society obtained the right to vote.
 

These two websites contain a vast collection of political campaign ads and can be used to allow students to explore on their own, or select some ads to illustrate points from the textbook.

Campaign Ad Database
Learning Objective: 11-4: Summarize the role of campaigns in elections.

Campaign Ad Database
Learning Objective: 11-4: Summarize the role of campaigns in elections.

Election Conspiracy Theories, an American Staple
Learning Objective: 11-5: Relate the principal–agent theory as it applies to elections.

Accountability and Principal-Agent Models
Learning Objective: 11-5: Relate the principal-agent theory as it applies to elections.