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The Road to the White House 2008
Course Objective: To study the history and politics of U.S. presidential campaigns, including an intensive 10-day internship in New Hampshire leading up to the first-in-the-nation primary. 19 Undergraduate and Graduate Students 11 Campaigns 3 Cities
Click to read student blogs from their experiences on working on the presidential primary campaign trail
Click to see photos and videos of the students from their experiences
Click to view the course syllabus Click to view the New Hampshire Itinerary
About the Class:
Sign up for “The Road to the White House” and INTERN for one of the presidential campaigns in NEW HAMPSHIRE, home of the first-in-the-nation primary. Learn first-hand about presidential campaigns and the presidential nominating process.
Seminars will be led and internships arranged and supervised by Professor Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan, a former White House staffer and veteran of several presidential campaigns who has extensive political experience in New Hampshire.
In our seminars we will discuss topics such as the presidential nominating process, the national conventions, voter turnout, campaign finance, third party and independent candidates, the electoral college, and the nature of presidential campaigns.
Note that this is a by arrangement course. Please contact Dr. Scourfield McLauchlan for more information jsm2@stpt.usf.edu
Road to the White House Students in the News
View videos of our class meetings in New Hampshire filmed by Paul Mena, a Fullbright graduate student in this class (and former political journalist from Ecuador) Part 1 (10 minutes) -- Part 2 (10 minutes) -- Part 3 (10 minutes)
Click Here to view students being interviewed about their experiences in New Hampshire on Tampa Bay's 10 news Click Here to view students interviewed prior to leaving for New Hampshire on Tampa Bay's 10 news Click Here to view the WBZTV interview with students outside burning hotel Click Here to view the Manchester Union Leader video of the hotel fire Click Here to view the WUSF TV University Beat piece on the Road to the White House Click Here to view students in a slideshow of photos by Martha Rial of the St. Petersburg Times Click Here to view "The March on Politics Blog" about the Road to the White House class in the Tampa Tribune Click Here to view the Union Leader article about the hotel fire Cick Here to view the Nashua Telegraph article regarding the hotel fire
Click Here to hear Profressor Scourfield McLauchlan interviewed on WUSF by Steve Newborn Click Here to hear students interviewed on WUSF by Steve Newborn Click here to listen to the WUSF radio University Beat piece on the Road to the White House Click Here to view a St. Petersburg Times article that summed up the feelings of the USFSP students after their New Hampshire experience
For more information about the candidates and the campaigns:
Democratic and Republican Party Websites:
New Hampshire Democratic Party http://www.nhdp.org
New Hampshire Republican Party http://www.nhgop.org
Florida Democratic Party http://www.fladems.com
Florida Republican Party http://www.rpof.org
The Democratic National Committee http://www.dnc.org
The Republican National Committee http://www.rnc.org
The following websites are good sources of information about what's happening on the presidential campaign trail:
cspan.org (Road to the White House)
ABC News’ “The Note” (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/US/TheNote.html)
Project Vote Smart, www.vote-smart.org
the Polling Report, www.pollingreport.com/wh2004.htm
Democracy in Action, www.p2008.org
Politico, http://www.politico.com/
CQ, http://cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5
Wall Street Journal (Washington Wire) -http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/
Democratic Presidential Candidates
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/nh
Republican Presidential Candidates
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