Election News
It?s a funny thing having an election in a country that may not be?as sovereign in a few years. Taiwan has been a separate country since 1949 when it split from China.1
With these requests in mind, Kidsnewsroom has decided to change its publishing format. Now a twice monthly publication, Kidsnewsroom will offer student, parent, and teacher educational resources, as well as current event articles, in each issue.2
Who are the Democratic contenders for the Presidential nomination in 2008? Review this list of the top eight: one governor, one representative, two former senators and four current senators.3
Not that there was much doubt about it. Even Democrats, including rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, have said they didn’t see a problem with McCain meeting the constitutional requirement that only a “natural born” citizen could serve.4
View the latest state-level health, demographic and economic data on states with upcoming primaries and caucuses, including Indiana and North Carolina. Get facts on the number of uninsured, health expenditures, SCHIP enrollment, state government tax collections and more.5
. Discuss how television affects the debates. Try having two students debate a question with an audience and then listen to two other students debate an issue on an audio tape.6
Tens of thousands of Sunnis and supporters of secular political parties have been protesting across Iraq after the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. Despite claims of fraud, international monitors say the polls were fair.7
The new CBS/New York Times poll gives Obama a 46% to 38% lead over Clinton nationally despite her win in Pennsylvania (which isn’t nearly as meaningful as her campaign and the media has tried to make it out to be) and the ridiculously endless coverage of Jeremiah Wright which is nothing but a distraction. Obama has quite obviously distanced himself from Wright.8