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Election Coverage and Resources
This election year, WGBH aims to inform and engage our community. On television, radio, and the Web, you'll find programs and interactive resources that you can trust as you prepare to cast your vote. Below are a few highlights from our television and radio coverage, as well as some online resources to help you get involved with the democratic process, both nationally and locally.
For information on registering to vote in Massachusetts and where to cast your ballot, see the Massachusetts Elections Division home page.
TELEVISION
P.O.V. - Election Day
Sunday, July 6 at 10:30pm on WGBH 44
This documentary ventures beyond the pie charts, color-coded maps, and hyperventilating pundits to examine the street-level experience of voters in today's America. Election Day combines 12 stories — shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight — into one, as factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists, and diligent poll watchers, from South Dakota to Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands on the same fateful day. The result is an entertaining, inspiring, and sometimes unsettling tapestry of citizens determined to make their votes count.
NewsHour Special Report: PBS Convention Coverage
August 25–28 from 8pm–11pm on WGBH 44
September 1–4 from 8pm–11pm on WGBH 44
This summer, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer will produce 24+ hours of live, prime-time coverage of both national political conventions to be broadcast in high-definition nationwide on PBS. These eight nights of convention coverage will be the only complete broadcast coverage made available by a US broadcast television network. Host Jim Lehrer will be joined by, among others, NewsHour senior correspondents Gwen Ifill, Ray Suarez, Judy Woodruff, and Margaret Warner. Political analysis will be provided by New York Times columnist David Brooks and syndicated columnist Mark Shields. Presidential historians Michael Beschloss and Richard Norton Smith will add historical perspective, and Andy Kohut, President of the Pew Research Center, will update viewers with the latest polling information.
RADIO
The Takeaway
Weekdays at 6am on WGBH 89.7
The Takeaway covers the 2008 election season in a conversational, personality-driven, LIVE format. Each weekday morning, hosts John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji convene critical conversations, take live reports from the election trail, and provide a platform for commentary and analysis from experts and listeners alike.
PRI's The World
Weekdays at 4pm and 7pm on WGBH 89.7
What happens in Washington reverberates around the globe. On the radio program and online, PRI's The World examines how America's choice of president will affect life on almost every continent: from the allocation of money in Africa for fighting AIDS and malaria, to facing the growing challenges of climate change, to handling the intractable issue of Iraq's future. The World will chronicle the pressing foreign policy challenges that await the next president, and examine each candidate's pledges and plans for action. In addition, The World is collaborating with Frontline/World to produce special online coverage of the election. Visitors can access video reports and dispatches from countries that present the deepest foreign policy challenges to the next president, including Pakistan and China. And amid all this serious policy stuff, The World retains its sense of humor by introducing political cartoonists, satirists, and stand-up comics from Cairo to Cape Town who offer their own takes on the candidates and America's campaign process.
ONLINE RESOURCES
The WGBH Lab and P.O.V. held an Open Call for election-themed video shorts. The submission deadline has passed, but you can track the progress of selected filmmakers on the WGBH Lab Blog.
WGBH and NPR present Get My Vote, an online discussion encouraging people to explain their core political beliefs, and to share personal stories about how those beliefs were formed. View, rate, and comment on posts from around the country, or share your own ideas and stories.
How would YOU spend three trillion dollars?
Play the Budget Hero game and fix America's federal budget as only you see fit! Raise or lower taxes, set spending priorities, and learn about the issues — as well as the tough trade-offs that accompany each decision.
Track nationwide voting results, read analysis from NewsHour and NPR, and learn more about state-by-state delegate distribution and voting histories using the NewsHour/NPR 2008 election map.
American Experience presents The Presidents Online, an online component to its award-winning series of presidential biographies, providing voters with valuable historical context in this election year.
NOW on PBS goes beyond the headlines with in-depth election resources. Learn about burning issues, track campaign contributions, caption a political cartoon, and keep up with both sides of the political blogosphere.
Greater Boston extends its in-depth local coverage to the Web with an online catalog of campaign analysis, and award-winning journalist John Carroll offers his take on the election season in his Campaign Journal.
The WGBH Forum Network's 2008 Election Series features lectures exploring the American political landscape going into this year's landmark election, as well as talks by and about the candidates.
Identify which presidential candidates you most agree with on 10 current issues by taking the Vote by Issue Quiz, created by WBUR.org and the Online NewsHour.
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