The Presidential elections in the United States of America are being closely watched not only by Americans but the international community. Elections are serious business as they decide the social and economic destiny of a nation. To make it a more fun, enjoyable and educational activity for you and your family, we present below some cool resources.

1. Take a peek into the daily lives of two of the greatest Presidents of United States – George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

I’m browsing through the internet, like I always do. I came across this story about UFO’s flying over Texas. I was like “hmm, I need to check this out.” Hence the story was ran on the 17th of Jan. (I really need to be updated)

Here is the exact story taken from the Dallas News. Residents from Stephenville are now in national limelight as they claimed

The United States of America has a highly confusing and complicated election procedure to elect its President. This complexity is only matched by the complex political structure of the country characterized by the many governments within a government – each of which are free to formulate their own laws, rules and regulation albeit within the scope of the federal law and constitution. Every person residing outside the capital of the United States is subject to at least three governing bodies – the federal government, state and/or local government. Read on to understand the political structure in the United States.

Federal Structure : The United States of America follows

Elections either Federal, State or local trigger hectic political activity by the candidates and their affiliated political parties. They organize wide-spread people-to-people contact programs to spread the message of their candidacy, their promises, policies, plans and programs. With competition being tough, especially in the U.S. where there are only two major parties, the need to capture the voter’s mind and vote requires continual and frequent reminders from candidates in the form of kits, brochures, meetings, advertisements (across all media like newspapers, television, radio, internet), banners, handouts, etc. These need a lot of money and it is beyond the scope of most candidates. Campaign finance is the solution

Campaign finance in the United States refers to financial of electoral campaigns at the federal, state or local levels.

The United States of America will be holding elections to choose its new President on November 4th, 2008. Along with the big two parties – the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, others like the Libertarian Party, Socialist Party, Green Party and others are working round the clock to select their respective Presidential nominees who will woo the American voters with their promises and plans so that they hand them the key to their dreams – access to the White House.

All media like the newspapers, radio, internet, television will start post poll analysis

The Democratic Party is the oldest political party in the United States of America and like its commonly accepted political symbol “donkey” stubbornly and doggedly defends its socially liberal views. It is known as the ‘common man’s ‘ party as its policies favor progressive tax rates (meaning those earning higher incomes should pay a higher rate of income tax), farmers, laborers, labor unions, religious minorities, ethic minorities and strongly opposes unregulated business and finance.

Though all democrats are known to share the same general view as the party, there are a number of democrats who differ greatly in the degree of acceptance

Texas, popularly called the lone star state for the single star in its flag, has the second highest population in the United States, after California. The 228 delegates of Texas Democrats who will represent Texas at the 2008 Democratic National Convention can influence the choice of their party’s Presidential nominee owing to the size of their contingent and the number of electoral votes they command. But will they be united in their choice – that is the moot question.

Texas political scene was dominated by the Democratic Party