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Making the Cut

This step in the process narrows the field. What happens when there is more than one person from a political party who wants to be President? Which candidate can “come out on top” and win his or her party's support? How is it done? Is this process really necessary today? Does it help or hurt the parties to have “infighting” and conflict that the competition can use against them later in the actual campaign? Can or should Iowa or New Hampshire really set the “tone” for the nation? Are political polls valid? Should we really care what other people think instead of thinking for ourselves?

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Sites to Explore

Associated Press Democratic Delegate Count--See the latest national nominating convention delegate count estimates.

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/elections2000/primaries/democrats/apdelegates.htm

Associated Press Republican Delegate Count--See the latest national nominating convention delegate count estimates .

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/elections2000/primaries/republicans/apdelegates.htm

Explore the ins and outs of primaries and caucuses in Time magazine's "Primer on the Primaries."

http://www.time.com/time/daily/special/look/0,2633,37744,00.html

What do polls have to do with it?

http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/009poll/index.html

Presidential photo ops can be quite revealing.

http://www.camelect.com/news/index.cfm?id=11

How does the League of Women Voters fit in?

http://www.lwv.org/

Campaign songs can make a notable difference!

http://www.americanpresident.org/lp_music.htm