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• SPECIAL EDITION: 2008 Republican National Convention
• SPECIAL EDITION: 2008 Democratic National Convention
• August 2008
• July 2008
• June 2008

Events

• Campaign Advisers Face S&T Questions: On 16 February 2008, advisers to the U.S. presidential campaigns of Clinton and Obama outlined their candidates' S&T plans and took questions from a full audience at the AAAS Annual Meeting. Audio and related materials are available.
• S&T Election Forum Question-and-Answer: Read questions that were submitted in writing by members of the audience at the AAAS Annual Meeting's presidential campaign forum.

Articles/Op-Eds

• "The Presidents' Guide to Science," James van der Pool, BBC Horizon, 16 September 2008
• "Presidential Candidates' Positions on Science Issues," William J. Broad, New York Times, 15 September 2008
• "McCain vs Obama: Who will end the war on science?" Ivan Semeniuk, New Scientist, 10 September 2008
• "Candidates Weigh in on Biomedicine," Janet Raloff, ScienceNews, 29 Aug 2008
• "Obama, McCain Scout High-Tech Homeland Revamp," Roxana Tiron, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug 2008
• "Obama Suggests $2 billion In New Funding for NASA," Marc Kaufman, Washington Post, 19 Aug 2008
• "Candidates Vow to Keep Politics Out of Science," Joe Palca, NPR All Things Considered, 12 Aug 2008
• "Science in the Seat of Power," Neal Lane, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/Aug 2008
• "Poll: Voters want candidate with energy answers," Jill Lawrence, USA Today, 4 Aug 2008
• "McCain, Obama float education plans" eSchool News, 17 July 2008
• "McCain to Lay Out Market-Oriented Technology Policy" CQ News, 8 July 2008
• "Earth scientists planning for Presidential transition" Arizona Geology, 30 June 2008
• "Stumping on Climate, McCain Faults Bush," Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times, 14 May 2008.
• "Science education, research need a boost from U.S." Chad Holliday Jr. and Graham Spanier, Philadelphia Inquirer, 11 April 2008
• "Plan B for Science Debate," Alan Boyle, MSNBC: Cosmic Log, 3 April 2008
• "Among science-debate questions put to candidates," Alan I. Leshner, Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 March 2008
• "Clinton, Obama Surrogates Debate Science Policy," Peggy Girschman, CQ Today Online News, 17 February 2008
• "Science Debate 2008: A Good Idea," Karen Tumulty, Time, 15 February 2008
• Science Friday: AAAS President David Baltimore will be a guest on NPR's next Science Friday broadcast, 1 February, to discuss science and technology issues in the 2008 election. See your local listings. 1 February 2008
• "AAAS Joins Call for Presidential Debate on Science and Innovation Issues," AAAS, 24 January 2008
• "Gordon Adds His Voice to Call for Science Focused Presidential Debate," U.S. House Science and Technology Committee, 16 January 2008
• "Science and Politics Do Mix-Finally," Elizabeth Sullivan, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, 6 January 2008
• "The Candidates on Energy and (Briefly) Climate," Andrew C. Revkin, The New Yorks Times Dot Earth, 6 January 2008
• "Absent from Politics, As Usual: Scientists and Engineers," Dan Greenberg, Blog on The Chronicle for Higher Education, 5 January 2008
• "Dr. President," Chris Mooney, Seed, 8 October 2007
• "Proposed Presidential Innovation: What the Presidential candidates think about innovation," Bruce Nussbaum, BusinessWeek, 15 November 2007
• "Science and the Candidates," Lawrence M. Krauss, Edge: the Third Culture. First published in the Wall Street Journal, 6 December 2007
• "Lou Dobbs Winning? Three Tracts Argue It Would Be a Disaster," Morton Kondracke, Roll Call, 13 December 2007 *
• "Let's have a presidential debate on science," Shawn Lawrence Otto, Salon, 13 December 2007
• "Scientists Push Presidential Candidates for Positions on Science," Sarah Lai Stirland, Wired, 13 December 2007
• "Science and the Next President," Science News Staff, Science, 4 January 2008 (* subscription required)
• "Science Debate 2008," Neil Munro, National Journal, 5 January 2008 (*subscription required)

Polls/Surveys

The following polls and surveys are listed strictly for informational purposes. A number are political polls on where the candidates stand in public opinion, while others address the science of polls, or public attitudes about elections and the electoral process. AAAS will continue to update this site with additional resources.

• "Your Candidates—Your Health 2008", from Research!America
• "America Speaks: Poll Data Summary Volume 9, 2008," from Research!America
• American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR): a professional association for political pollsters
• American Research Group
• American National Election Studies (ANES)
• ANES Guide to Elections and Public Opinion
• Congressional Quarterly
• Gallup Poll, Election 2008

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