Election Process

• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (GPO)
  • Describes federal government for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, and teachers/parents
  • Describes the nation, historic documents, branches of government, national v. state authority, how laws are made, elections, and citizenship
  • Pleasing graphics, a glossary, games and activities
  • Includes list of federal government web sites for children

• Center for Voting and Democracy
  • Think tank providing background information on election issues
  • Redistricting, proportion representation, instant runoff issues, and voter turnout

• CQ Voting and Elections Collection (UMich Only)
  • Use main screen to search for statewide election results for President and Congress, (primary, general and caucus), 1789 to present
  • Main screen includes articles and selected documents on the election process and political parties, browsable within category or searchable by keyword (e.g. internet voting)
  • Side frame permits manipulation of party control and party split data
  • Export/download on side frame provides Excel spreadsheets of historic Presidential, Gubernatorial and Congressional elections by state and county or Congressional District; equivalent of paper America Votes

• Elections 2004 (State Dept. Foreign Press Center)
  • Comprehensive web links and articles on the election process: primaries, caucuses, issues, electoral college, public opinion polls

• This Nation
  • Online textbook on American government
  • Chapters on foundations (American Revolution, constitution, self-rule, federalism), the branches of government, legislative and budget processes, public opinion, voting
  • Glossary of political terms, teaching aids, and a library of full text documents (major Supreme Court decisions, declarations of war, etc.)

• United States Electoral College (NARA)
  • Electoral college laws and procedures
  • Number of electoral votes per state for the 2004 elections
  • State-by-state electoral college votes, 1789-2000

• United States Government (Grolier On-Line)
  • Encyclopedic description of constitution, three branches of government, voting, and political parties
  • From the New Book of Knowledge (Grades 3-8)
  • See is American Presidency for links to additional articles in the Academic American Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia Americana

Comprehensive Election Web Sites

• America Votes (CNN)
  • Compares Presidential candidates on the issues and campaign finances
  • Tracks Democratic primary election results and delegate totals
  • Election calendar and public opinion polls

• Congress.org
  • Lists major Presidential candidates and their ISSUE positions on Civilian Reserve, DC representation, economy, education, environment, job creation, health care, national security, and tax policy
  • State-by-state information on voter registration and upcoming elections
  • Will eventually include links to Congressional and state legislative races by state

• Elections 2004
  • Well-organized "open directory" of web sites pertaining to 2004 elections
  • Separate sections on Presidential, Congressional, and state elections

• Elections (Vanderbilt)
  • Well-organized links to election web sites for 2000, 2002, and 2004
  • Includes candidates, parties, campaign finances, and voter registration

• News and Media Coverage (Open Directory)
  • List of television and newspaper web sites with national and regional election coverage

• Politics 1 (Politics 1)
  • Pictures and biographies of declared and undeclared presidential candidates
  • Republican, Democrat, and third party, as well as independents
  • Additional annotated to links to presidential debates and public opinion POLLS
  • State-by-state listing of gubernatorial and Congressional candidates and their web sites

• Project Vote Smart
  • Biographies, LOBBY GROUP ratings, CAMPAIGN RECEIPTS by Political Action Committee subject groupings
  • Candidate answers to the National Political Awareness Test, a questionnaire on ISSUES in the election
  • Congress, Governors, President, and State Legislatures

• Washington Post Elections
  • Presidential and Congressional election news stories
  • Search for political ADVERTISEMENTS which have aired and transcripts of Presidential DEBATES
  • As of 1/24/04, expected to handicap Congressional and Senatorial races using the CQ Risk Ratings

Congressional Candidates

• Candidate Profiles (Center for Responsive Politics)
  • List of Congressional District and Senatorial races by state
  • Lists CAMPAIGN FINANCES received and spent and campaign contributions by interest sector
  • Includes top contributors

• Congress.org
  • Lists major Presidential candidates and their positions on Civilian Reserve, DC representation, economy, education, environment, job creation, health care, national security, and tax policy
  • State-by-state information on voter registration and upcoming elections
  • Will eventually include links to Congressional and state legislative races by state

• Congressional District Boundaries
  • American Factfinder
    • Draw Congressional District boundary maps by first going to Reference Maps
    • Then search or browse for name of state
    • Under Boundaries choose Boundaries and Labels for STATE, COUNTIES, CITIES, PLACES, and 108th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
  • Zip to It (Juan Cabanela)
    • Put in five or nine digit zip code to determine senators and representatives for the 108th Congress

• Google Web Directory: U.S. Elections
  • Annotated links to quality web sites on U.S. elections, campaign finance, former candidates, political humor
  • 2000-2004 elections

• House Candidates: 2004 (UMich)
  • Spreadsheet of 109th and 108th Congresses with retirements and races
  • Color-coded to permit easy visualization of possible party realignments
  • Also available in PDF format
  • Primary location: Elections 2004

• Politics1.com
  • Web links to Congressional and state-wide candidates
  • No links to state legislative candidates

• Project Vote Smart
  • Biographies, LOBBY GROUP ratings, CAMPAIGN RECEIPTS by Political Action Committee subject groupings
  • Candidate answers to the National Political Awareness Test, a questionnaire on ISSUES in the election
  • Congress, Governors, President, and State Legislatures

• Senate Candidates: 2004 (UMich)
  • Spreadsheet of 109th and 108th Congresses with continuing Senators and Senate races
  • Color-coded to permit easy visualization of possible party realignments
  • Also available in PDF format

• Washington Post Elections
  • Presidential and Congressional election news stories
  • Search for political ADVERTISEMENTS which have aired and transcripts of Presidential DEBATES
  • As of 1/24/04, expected to handicap Congressional and Senatorial races using the CQ Risk Ratings

• Almanac of American Politics (UMich Only)
  • Biennial biographical directory of Members of Congress
  • Lengthy information about the politics of the Congressional District
  • Brief CAMPAIGN FINANCES, LOBBY GROUP ratings, and key roll call VOTES
  • Web version back to 1998
  • Paper copy in Documents Center JK 1012 .A44 with current in Graduate Library Stacks

• Clerk of the House
  • Historical data includes national electoral college results since the 1st Congress, Presidential and Senatorial election results by state and House by district since 1920
  • Data on the political divisions in Congress since the 34th Congress

• CQ Congress Collection (UMich Only)
  • Member search provides detailed political biographies, brief election statistics, and LOBBY GROUP ratings since the 97th Congress
  • Additional interactive features: analyze VOTING ALIGNMENTS between members, their state delegations, and PARTY UNITY
  • Analyze lobby group ratings of individuals Members and groups of Members

• Incumbent Plans
  • UMich affiliates should see CQ Weekly Report, Jan. 3, 2004, p. 42 for a list of current Congressional members and their reasons for not running for re-election

• Politics in America (UMich Only)
  • Profile section includes biographical, campaign finance, district, and election information; bills introduced, current speeches, roll call votes for members of the 106th Congress
  • Web version (CQ Congress Collection) not labelled as printed title but includes the same information
  • Doc.Cen. JK 1012 .A44

Presidential Candidates

• Congress.org
  • Lists major Presidential candidates and their ISSUE positions on Civilian Reserve, DC representation, economy, education, environment, job creation, health care, national security, and tax policy
  • State-by-state information on voter registration and upcoming elections
  • Will eventually include links to Congressional and state legislative races by state

• CQ Congress Collection (UMich Only)
  • Information for Edwards, Gephardt, Kerry, Kucinich, Lieberman, Moseley-Braun
  • Member search provides detailed political biographies, brief election statistics, and LOBBY GROUP ratings since the 97th Congress
  • Additional interactive features: analyze VOTING ALIGNMENTS between members, their state delegations, and PARTY UNITY
  • Analyze lobby group ratings of individuals Members and groups of Members

• FactCheck (Univ of Pennsylvania)
  • Analyzes claims made by politicians in the news to determine their accuracy
  • New entries several times per week

• How to Run for the Presidency
  • Constitutional Qualifications (Cornell Law School)
  • Election 2004: How to Run for President (Scholastic Magazine)
    • Web site for teachers to explain the election process
    • Focused on publicity and party affiliation
  • How to Run for President in Massachusetts
    • Gives specific procedures for getting one's name on the primary and general election ballot
  • How to Run in All States
    • See Political Resources for a list of State Secretaries of State
      • These web sites usually having filing information, deadlines, and campaign finance rules
    • See the Federal Voters' Assistance Guide for a list of state primaries by date
    • See the Federal Election Commission for federal campaign finance guidelines
    • See Politics 1 for a list of existing party and non-party candidates

• Michigan Quaker Peace Forum
  • Positions of nine Democratic and one Republican Presidential candidate and 10 ISSUES
  • Detailed information on campaign finance, education, health care, economy, and international relations

• On the Issues
  • Extensive web site analyzing positions of all Presidential candidates as well as incumbent governors, senators and House members on a breaktaking variety of campaign issues
  • Relies on their voting records but also includes position statements

• Presidency 2004 (Politics 1)
  • Pictures and biographies of declared and undeclared presidential candidates
  • Republican, Democrat, and third party, as well as independents
  • Extensive links to positive and negative G.W. Bush web sites
  • Additional annotated to links to presidential debates and public opinion polls
  • The premier web site early in the 2004 campaign

• Presidential Candidate Statements
  • John Kerry Concession Speech
  • George Bush Victory Speech

• Project Vote Smart
  • Biographies, LOBBY GROUP ratings, CAMPAIGN RECEIPTS by Political Action Committee subject groupings
  • Candidate answers to the National Political Awareness Test, a questionnaire on ISSUES in the election
  • Congress, Governors, President, and State Legislatures
  • Excellent list of independent candidates

• What Makes A Good President (American Psychological Association)
  • Press release of presentation made at the American Psychological Association Convention on August 5, 2000
  • Identifies stubbornness and disagreeableness as the two most important personal characteristics for great presidents
  • Classifies past U.S. presidents into eight personality types

• President Match (Time and AOL)
  • Interactive questionnaire giving user a match on the ISSUES to the Democratic and Republican candidates
  • May also compare two candidates side-by-side on the issues

• Vote by Issue (WBUR)
  • Users can read detailed candidate positions on 14 ISSUES
  • Matches voters to appropriate Democratic primary candidate

Michigan Candidates and Ballot Proposals

• Michigan Unofficial General Election Results (Secy. of State)
  • Results for President, school board, proposals, university governance, judgeships, and statewide proposals by county
  • Results for Congressional and state legislative districts by district

• Michigan Ballot Proposals
  • Voter Approval for New Table Gambling (04-01)
    • Summary
    • Full Text and Analysis
      • Extensive history and non-partisan analysis provided by the Citizens Research Council of Michigan
  • Definition of Marriage (04-02)
    • Summary
    • Full Text and Analysis
      • Analysis of impact includes marriage and domestic partnership laws in other states and those employers in Michigan providing same sex benefits

• Official Candidate List, November 2004 (Secretary of State)
  • List of all candidates for federal and state office on the November 2, 2004 ballot
  • Includes office, name, party, address

• Congressional Candidates (Politics 1)
  • List of Michigan Congressional candidates by district and their web sites
  • Includes all parties running

• Election 2004 (Michigan Electronic Library)
  • Primary and caucus information
  • County election web sites with sample ballots and election results - to be developed

• Michigan Democratic Party
  • Application to vote in the Michigan democratic caucus on February 7, 2004
  • List of party caucus sites and libraries which will accept online voting

• Michigan Elections (Michigan Department of State)
  • State-wide general and primary election results by district beginning with the 1994 primaries; registered voters
  • Election, campaign, and lobby registration laws
  • Filing deadlines, ballot proposals
  • Election districts for the various state offices arranged by county
  • List of candidates for state offices and their campaign finances -- eventually
  • Voter registration instructions

• Michigan Green Party Candidates for Congressional, State and County Offices

• Michigan Libertarian Candidates for Congressional, State and County Offices

• Michigan Republican Party
  • Campaign issues

• Michigan Voting Information: Frequently Asked Questions (UMich)
  • How to verify your registration and obtain an advance copy of your ballot
  • Provisional voting and vote challenges in Michigan
  • Prepared by Kathleen Folger of the UMich Foster Library

• Publius Voter Information Center
  • Allows individuals to verify their voter registration status
  • Will eventually allow voters to view their local ballot prior to the primaries and general election

• Washtenaw County Clerk
  • Ballot proposals and candidates throughout all county jurisdictions
  • Primary results
  • Campaign finances
  • Voter registration information

State Candidates

• Governors' Races (Stateline)
  • List of November 2004 governors' elections and candidates

• Governors' Terms of Office (National Governors Association)
  • Lists governors by state
  • Indicates when term ends; 1/05 indicates an election due

• Politics1
  • Lists Congressional and gubernatorial candidates by state
  • Links to their web sites when available

• Secretary of State Offices (National Association of Secretaries of State)
  • Links to state Secretary of State offices
  • Individual web sites often have campaign information and election results

• State Political Parties (National Political Index)

• Mayoral Elections Data Base (US Conference of Mayors)
  • Lists 2003 elections by city and date of inauguration
  • Expected to carry the 2004 elections

Advertising

• AdWatch (Washington Post)
  • Video and transcripts of Presidential candidate ads, including those aired during the primary
  • Searchable by candidate or keyword in transcript
  • Access through a pull-down menu at the bottom of the page

• Bush Campaign Ads
  • Video with Windows Media Player, Real Video or Quick Time Player

• Ease History (MSU)
  • Clips of television Presidential campaign ads, 1952-2004
  • Uses flash player
  • Searchable by year, winners/losers, positive/negiative, issues, and themes
  • Stunning piece of research

• Kerry Campaign Ads
  • Video with Windows Media Player or Real Video

• Livingroom Candidate
  • Major presidential campaign ads, 1952-2004
  • Uses Windows Media Player or RealPlayer

• MoveOn.org
  • "Bush in 30 Seconds" ads
  • High bandwidth, low bandwith, and stills

• National Journal Ad Spotlight (UMich Only)
  • Campaign ads using Real Player since 1998
  • Presidential, gubernatorial, and Congressional races
  • Some of the Kerry ads for 2004 work with the remote proxy server; many group ads and those pre-dating 2004 do not work off-campus
  • RealPlayer is available at campus computing sites and can access all of the ads in this series

Campaign Finances

• Buying of the President 2004 (Center for Public Integrity)
  • Campaign contributions of major Republican and Democratic donors
  • Personal finances of the candidates, including stock holdings

• Campaign Finance Reform - Or Not?
  • Academic guide to the campaign finance reform debate
  • Identifies interest groups and current bills before Congress

• Campaign Money
  • Searchable data base of campaign contributions for Presidential and Congressional candidates beginning in 2000
  • Access by candidate, political action committee, or 527 organization
  • Information is cross-listed in several ways

• Center for Responsive Politics
  • Non-partisan research group monitoring campaign reform
  • Congressional campaign finance filings
  • Personal Finance Disclosure Reports on Congress and presidential candidates are in pdf format and may be over 3 MB
  • Open Secrets
    • Lobby group campaign contributions to Members of Congress arranged by industry and separately by member
    • Web version in Adobe Acrobat format corresponds to paper version in Documents Center (JK 1991 .M261)

• FECInfo (Tony Raymond)
  • Congressional and Presidential campaign contributions searchable by name, state, Political Action Committee, or individual
  • Special analyses include contributors by occupation or zip code and candidates receiving the most out-of-state money
  • User-friendly interface

• Federal Election Commission
  • Summary receipts and disbursements of Presidential and all Congressional candidates
  • Image files of individual campaign committee reports beginning with the 1997/98 cycle
  • Detailed files with individual contributors for 1993/94 and 1995/96 must be downloaded

• Fundrace 2004
  • Search by street address to determine the people in your zip code giving more than $200 to a presidential candidate
  • May also search by name of an individual

• Project Vote Smart
  • Biographies, lobby group ratings, campaign receipts by Political Action Committee subject groupings
  • Candidate answers to the National Political Awareness Test, a questionnaire on issues in the election
  • Congress, Governors, President, and State Legislatures

Candidate Resources

• Campaigns and Elections (Congressional Quarterly)
  • Election news, political odds on the candidates
  • Rate Your Rep for comparing voter views against those of a Congressperson
  • Political services and buyer's guide
  • Some sections require password
  • Full text of periodical available to University of Michigan affiliates through Proquest

• Political Resources Online
  • Searchable list of over 3000 political products and services (e.g. pollsters, posters)
    • Approach by specialty, geography, party, and name
  • Calendar of upcoming events, including conventions, state primaries
  • Web sites of federal, state, and local candidates

• VoteNet
  • Political resources for the candidate
  • Includes books, think tanks, political strategists and pollsters
  • Issues research (abortion, affirmative action, gun control, etc)

Debates

• Commission on Presidential Debates
  • Text of the 2004 debates as they occur
  • Text of debates for 1858, 1948, 1956, 1960, and every four years since 1976
  • Text of 2000 debates, public opinion polls, and discussion groups
  • Scheduled debates:
    • Thursday, September 30
    • Tuesday, October 5 (VP)
    • Friday, October 8
    • Wednesday, October 13

• C-Span Debates
  • Videos of the 2004 Presidential Debates as they occur

• Debate 2000
  • Webcast of the Democratic Presidential debate (Jan. 5, 2000) and the Republican (Jan. 6, 2000)

• Democratic National Committee
  • Text of Democratic candidate debates beginning with Albuquerque on Sept. 4, 2003
  • Not all debates have been archived

• Washington Post Debate Transcripts
  • Carries Bush/Kerry debate transcripts but has not archived the Democratic debates in Fall 2003

Gaming

• 270 to Win
  • Interactive map of electoral college for 2004
  • Begin by viewing the map as neutral, with 2000 results, or imagined in 2004 (with red, blue and swing states)
  • Toggle to change the colors and determine a strategy

• Election Day Simulation (University of Washington)
  • Game to teach the electoral process; may take 10 minutes to 6 hours
  • Players choose candidate and campaign staff
  • React to circumstances, issues, crises and geography
  • Election results can be analyzed at the end of the game
  • Game must be downloaded from web site to a hard drive

• President Forever
  • Download a game that lets you run your own Presidential campaign

• United States Electoral College (NARA)
  • Electoral college laws and procedures
  • State-by-state electoral college votes, 1789-2000
  • Create your own electoral vote scenario

Humor

• This Land (Political Cartoon)
  • George Bush and John Kerry sing to "This Land is Made for You and Me"
  • Created by the brothers Spiridellis

Lobby Group Web Sites

Conservative Internet Sites
• American Conservative Union
• Conservative News Service
• Judicial Watch
• Right March
• Town Hall

Issue-Oriented Groups

• AFL-CIO
• Alternative Press Center
• American Association for Affirmative Action
• American Assoc.for Retired Persons
• American Bar Association
• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth
• American Medical Association
• American Public Health Association
• American Public Transit Association
• American Public Welfare Association
• Anti-Defamation League
• Association of American Universities
• Center for Individual Rights
• Christian Coalition
• Citizens Against Government Waste
• Common Cause
• Concord Coalition (deficit reduction)
• Constitution Society
• Corporate Watch
• Death Penalty Information Center
• Families USA
• Family Research Council
• Federation of American Scientists
• Greenpeace International
• Institute for Puerto Rican Policy
• Labor Unions Directory (CWA)
• Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
• League of Conservation Voters
• League of Women Voters
• National Abortion Activists League
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Association of Air Traffic Specialists
• National Center for Children in Poverty
• National Education Association
• National Coalition for the Homeless
• National Fish and Wildlife Federation
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
• National Organization for Women
• National Priorities Project (Budget)
• National Rifle Association
• National Right to Life
• OMB Watch
• Open the Government
• People for the American Way
• Planned Parenthood
• Pro-Life Action League
• Public Citizen (Ralph Nader)
• Sierra Club
• Teamsters
• United Farm Workers
• USA Engage (against unilateral economic sanctions abroad)
• Veterans of Foreign Wars
• Vietnam Veterans of America
• Wilderness Society
• Subject-Oriented Groups (National Political Index)

Liberal Internet Sites

• Common Dreams 2000
• Information to Act
• MoveOn
• Turn Left

Lobby Group Ratings

• CQ Congress Collection (UMich Only)
  • Member search provides detailed political biographies, brief election statistics, and lobby group ratings since the 97th Congress
  • Additional interactive features: analyze voting alignments between members, their state delegations, and party unit
  • Analyze lobby group ratings of individuals Members and groups of Members

• League of Conservation Voters
  • Floor votes and LCV ratings on environmental issues beginning 1993

• Politics in America
  • Printed directory located in the Documents Center (JK 1010.P76-Ref.)
  • Arranged by state and district
  • Political biography, lobby group ratings, major roll call votes
  • Web version is the CQ Congress Collection (UMich Only)

• Project Vote Smart
  • Votes by Members of Congress on major issues by subject with corresponding lobby group ratings

• Voter Information Service
  • Ratings of House and Senate members by 25 lobby groups, 1989 to present
  • Arranged by State and District; listings can be confusing when redistricting has occurred
  • Requires membership as of 2004. UMich users should access CQ Congress Collection Public access to some information from Project Vote Smart

Media Coverage

• Campaign Desk (Columbia School of Journalism)
  • Articles evaluating the accuracy of current election press coverage
  • Links to campaign, campaign finance, and political web sites

• FactCheck (Univ of Pennsylvania)
  • Analyzes claims made by politicians in the news to determine their accuracy
  • New entries several times per week

• News and Media Coverage (Open Directory)
  • List of television and newspaper web sites with national and regional election coverage

Political Parties

• National Party Web Sites
  • American Heritage Party
  • American Independent Party
  • American Party
  • American Reform Party
  • Communist Party USA
  • Constitution Party
    • Formed by merger of U.S. Taxpayers Party and Internet Party in November 1999
  • Democratic Party
    • Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
    • Democratic Leadership Council
    • Democratic National Committee
    • Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
    • House Democratic Caucus
    • House Democratic Leadership
    • Senate Democratic Policy Committee
    • Women's National Democratic Club
  • Democratic Socialists of America
  • Family Values Party
  • Freedom Socialist Party
  • Green Party
  • Independent American Party
  • Internet Party
  • Labor Party
  • Libertarian Party
  • Light Party
  • Natural Law Party
  • New Party
  • New Union Party
  • Peace and Freedom Party
  • Prohibition Party and Prohibition Party New Web Site
  • Reform Party
  • Republican Party
    • House Republican Policy Committee
    • National Republican Congressional Committee
    • Republican National Committee
    • Senate Republican Conference
    • Senate Republican Policy Committee
    • Speaker of the House
  • Socialist Equality Party
  • Socialist Labor Party
  • Socialist Party USA
  • Socialist Workers Party
  • Southern Independence Party
  • Workers World Party
  • Comprehensive Index (National Political Index)

• Democratic National Convention
  • Boston, Massachusetts, July 26-29, 2004
  • Videos, transcripts and pictures of the major speeches

• Democratic Primary Scorecard (CNN)
  • Running count of delegates committed to individual Democratic candidates by state
  • Includes pledged by vote and unpledged (can decide on own)
  • Click on state for more information about the primaries and caucuses

• Green Party of the U.S.A. National Convention
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 23-28, 2004

• Libertarian Party National Convention
  • Atlanta, Georgia, May 27-31, 2004

• Republican National Convention
  • August 30-September 2, 2004
  • Speeches and videos of the week

• 2004 Platforms
  • Democratic
    • Backup Copy
  • Green Party
  • Libertarian
  • Ralph Nader
  • Republican Platform (Courtesy of CBS News)
    \
    • GOP Convention Copy
    • Backup Copy

• 2000 Platforms
  • Democratic
  • Republican

• Historic Party Platforms (American Presidency Project)
  • Full text of national party platforms, including major third parties, 1840-2000

Public Opinion Polls

• 2004 Elections Project (HHH Institute of Public Affairs)
  • Presidential elections from the perspective of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota
  • Presidential job approval ratings and public opinion polls on in-depth issues for those states
  • Presidential, Congressional and gubernatorial election results for the four states since 1960
  • Third party election statistics for 2002 (all states)
  • Some issue briefs

• American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy
  • Special survey conducted in 1999 by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
  • Charts and graphs on public opinion on national priorities, U.S. role in resolving world problems, major foreign affairs issues
  • Adobe Acrobat only

• Election Day Exit Polls (Roper Center)
  • Sells CDs of detailed election polls from the news organization pools for 2000 (Voter News Service) and 2004 (Edison Media Research)
  • Detailed microdata at the national and state level includes Presidential and Senatorial choices, reasons for voting, and voter characteristics (age, income, religion)
  • Documents Center CD-ROM (Docs CD-ROM Do258) has data in ASCII and SPSS formats for manipulation
  • CD includes national and state summaries for both years in pdf (e.g. religion cross-tabulated by preferred candidate but not religion by income by preferred candidate

• Fourth National Survey of Religion and Politics
  • Data and analysis on how members of various religions voted for President and why

• Gallup Organization
  • Summary results of most current public opinion polls
  • Gallup Poll, 1935 to present, also available in the Graduate Library Reference Room as HN 90.P9 .G18

• General Social Survey (ICPSR, NORC, UC-Berkeley)
  • Annual survey since 1972 of public opinion and lifestyle
  • Covers poverty, religion, contraceptive use, opinion on foreign affairs
  • ICPSR site provides background on survey as well as printed publications resulting from the survey
  • Primary data extraction available from ICPSR and UC-Berkeley
  • Computer-Assisted Survey (UC-Berkeley)
    • Data may be manipulated on-line
    • Quick start instructions for the initiate:
      • Choose Demonstration Survey Data Archive
      • Choose the survey you would like and the "browse" option; start
      • Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
      • Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
      • Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
      • Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or percentages
    • Example of General Social Survey
      • Percentage of Protestants who strongly agree with death penalty
      • In "run crosstabulations," type in "deathpen" as vertical and "relig" as horizontal; check off percentaging as vertical; run the table
      • Example of American National Election Studies

• Kaiser Family Foundation Surveys
  • Surveys on American values, sex, health care issues, politics, and morals
  • Full text since 1996
  • Most in pdf format

• Louis Harris Associates
  • Public opinion results of last two months
  • Primarily government and economic questions

• National Annenberg Election Survey
  • Weekly reserves provide public opinion on election issues: stem cell research, veteran service, assault weapons, candidate personalities, Iraq
  • Data broken down by demographic characteristics

• National Council on Public Opinion Polls
  • Principles of disclosure
  • 20 questions journalists should ask when reading poll results

• National Election Studies (UMich-Center for Political Studies)
  • Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation studies
  • Studies 1994+ available for ftp for use with SAS or SPSS
  • Documentation in Word Perfect format
  • Web site includes 2000 Pre- and Post-Election Questionnaires
  • National Election Studies: 2004 has pre and post election data sets
  • Its Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public opinion, 1952 to present

• Pew Research Center
  • Text and statistics of U.S. public opinion polls on politics, public policy, and the press
  • Issues covered since 1995 include the Presidential elections, TV news viewership, Medicare reforms, campaign financing, churches, and the death of Princess Diana
  • Data on the public's attention to major news stories beginning 1986
  • Archive of files since 1985 available upon request

• Political Forecasting
  • Monthly projection of the presidential vote based on several different polling companies
  • Begins May 2004

• Polling Report
  • Biweekly periodical with public opinion polls on politics, business, and culture
  • Examples include favorite actor of all time, the President's approval rating
  • Includes articles on public opinion trends by opinion analysts, pollsters and academics

• Presidential Job Performance (Roper Center)
  • Public opinion polls on President Clinton's job
  • Separate charts from Gallup, Yankelovich, ABC, NBC, and CBS rate the President several times per year since 1993
  • Gallup ratings include begin with 1938 and rate president's since FDR

• Public Agenda
  • Nonpartisan, issue-oriented think tank
  • Presents eighteen issues, including abortion, crime, gambling, immigration, internet privacy, social security, and welfare
  • For each issue provides background, links to lobby groups, a digest of news stories, basic statistics, and a variety of state laws
  • Numerous public opinion polls

• Real Clear Politics
  • Daily updates of the national and state polls
  • Some news articles from both sides of the aisle

• Public Opinion Quarterly (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
  • Full text of scholarly journal analyzing public opinion worldwide
  • Searchable by keyword, author, journal, date
  • Part of JSTOR project
  • Full text also in Graduate Library as HM 261 .A1 P98 with a backup on microfilm as FILM X375

• Roper Center/Public Opinion
  • Primarily information about the Center
  • Searchable catalogs of its public opinion polls, the Latin American Survey Data Bank and the Japanese Survey Data Bank
  • Roper polls can also be searched in Academic Universe (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only) in the Reference/Polls and Surveys section

• Washington Post
  • Public opinion polls on public affairs since January 1997
  • Subjects include Presidential popularity, sanctions toward Iraq, violence in schools
  • Descriptions supplemented by statistical tables

Comprehensive

• Almanac of Policy Issues
  • Extensive web site on nine policy areas: criminal justice, culture and society, economics, education, environment, government operations, health, social welfare, and world affairs
  • Each section is divided into 4-10 subtopics
  • Provides a non-partisan back to the issues
  • Links to articles on all sides of the subject as well as primary documents and related government agencies, think tanks, and organizations

• American Voice
  • Readable but scholarly articles on issues in the 2004 campaign from both the conservative and liberal standpoints
  • Issues include abortion, same-sex marriage, capital punishment, social security, stem cell research
  • Footnotes document many paragraphs
  • Summaries of liberal and conservative viewpoints show in the boxes

• America's Debate
  • Running debate on policy issues: constitution, social welfare, economics, political campaigns

• Congress.org
  • Issues section includes action alerts on legislation before Congress from a variety of lobby groups
  • Lists major Presidential candidates and their positions on Civilian Reserve, DC representation, economy, education, environment, job creation, health care, national security, and tax policy

• FactCheck (Univ of Pennsylvania)
  • Analyzes claims made by politicians in the news to determine their accuracy
  • New entries several times per week

• Michigan Quaker Peace Forum
  • Positions of nine Democratic and one Republican Presidential candidate and 10 ISSUES
  • Detailed information on campaign finance, education, health care, economy, and international relations

• On the Issues
  • Extensive web site analyzing positions of all Presidential candidates as well as incumbent governors, senators and House members on a breaktaking variety of campaign issues
  • Relies on their voting records but also includes position statements

• National Conference of State Legislatures
  • Pull-down menu of 24 issues facing state government, including budgets, health care, energy, environment, taxes
  • Includes news and articles on innovative projects

• Political Information
  • Keyword index to politician and lobby group web sites

• Politics1
  • Extensive listing of lobby group web sites arranged by issue

• Project Vote Smart
  • Answers to the National Political Awareness Test by candidates for federal and state offices

• See also Candidate/Voter Issue Matching, Public Opinion Polls, and Platforms

• Congressional Quarterly (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
  • Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
  • Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
  • Political party and election analysis
  • Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
  • Separate index for roll call votes beginning 1995
  • Prior to 1983, use Congressional Quarterly Almanac, (Doc.Cen. JK 1 .C756--Ref.)

• Congressional Universe (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
  • CIS Index indexes Congressional committee hearings by subject, committee, date, and witness since 1970
    • Some hearings available in full text on the web
    • All hearings in print or microfiche format in the Documents Center
  • Includes bills and bill status, 1989+, all laws since 1789, Congressional Record for floor debates since 1985, and federal regulations since 1980

• National Journal (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
  • National Journal focuses on the politics of the Executive Branch with some reference to current legislation
  • Full text since 1977 available through the University of Michigan's campus license to Congressional Universe

Abortion

• Abortion Statistics (Statistical Abstract of the United States)
  • Annual publication with data compiled from various government and non-government sources
  • Section 2, includes abortion statistics
  • The 2002 edition has tables 124-126 on abortion by age, race, state, and length of gestation

• Partial Birth Abortion Ban (THOMAS)
  • S. 3 passed into law as PL 108-105 in October 2003
  • Includes full text, floor debates, and roll call votes

• State Homicide Laws (National Right to Life)
  • State homicide laws recognizing an unborn's right to life
  • Divided into three categories and subarranged by state
  • Includes citation to the law

• U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics (Alan Guttmacher Institute)
  • Teen pregnancies by outcome (births, abortions, miscarriages)
  • Birth, abortion, and pregnancy rates per 1000 women
  • Age distributions are 14 and under, 15-17, 18-19, and all under 20
  • State abortion policies updated through 2002

Affirmative Action

• Affirmative Action and Diversity Project (UCSB)
  • Position papers on both sides of affirmative action issue
  • Includes race, gender, changing definitions of diversity, pending federal and state laws and court decisions
  • University of California Regent decision prohibiting race as college admission factor as well as UC faculty and student response

• Race, Gender and Affirmative Action: A Resource for Teaching
  • Extensive annotated bibliography of race, gender, social groups
  • Arguments for and against affirmative action in college admissions
  • Legal cases
  • Written by Elizabeth Anderson, Dept. of Philosophy, UMich, in 1998 and updated through 2002

• See also University of Michigan Affirmative Action Lawsuit (Documents Center)

Civil Rights

• Bush Record on Civil Rights (On the Issues)
  • Stated positions on civil rights issues
  • 26 quotations

• Kerry Record on Civil Rights (On the Issues)
  • Key votes on civil rights issues as well as stated positions
  • 23 quotes on civil rights

• Redefining Rights in America: The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration, 2001-2004
  • Draft report issued by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in September 2004
  • Details Bush Administration strategy on civil rights, voting rights, education, housing, crimes, and actions toward disadvantaged groups
  • Concludes the Bush Administration has not shown leadership
  • Another Copy
  • This publication was removed from the Civil Rights Commission web site in January 2005

Economics

• Budget and Economic Outlook, Fiscal Year 2005 to 2014 (Congressional Budget Office)
  • Projects yearly expenditures and revenues for the 10-year period, including a 1.9 trillion cumulative deficit by 2014
  • Projections for unemployment remain at slightly over 5%
  • Reported released in January 2004

• Economagic (Ted Bos)
  • Time series of numerous economic indicators collected by the federal government
  • Create a chart of S&P 500 total returns (stock market) using the Most Frequently Requested link

• Economic Indicators (FRB-St.Louis)
  • Gross Domestic Product, price, employment and monetary data
  • Most time series begin in the 1940s; graphs and charts for past few years
  • ASCII or various spreadsheet formats

• Economic Report of the President
  • Fourteen chapters discuss the President's view of the economy, including solvency, manufacturing, health care, foreign trade, government regulation, energy, and environment
  • Detailed statistical tables of economic indicators
  • Submitted to Congress, February 2004

• Federal Budget FY 2005
  • Budget and appendix can be downloaded by chapter or in their entirety
  • Receipts and expenditures available in several spreadsheet formats
  • Historical Tables in one pdf file

• Fiscal Survey of the States, Fall 2003 (NGA)
  • Status of state budgets and budget cutting measures

• House Ways and Means Committee
  • Selected hearings on tax code revision

• Household Economics (Census Bureau)
  • Historical and current data on personal income and poverty by characteristics
  • Data through 2002

• National Debt
  • U.S. National Debt Clock
    • Total federal deficit updated daily plus per capita share
  • Bureau of Public Debt
    • Daily listing of federal deficit down to the penny

• National Priorities Project
  • Lobby group on federal budget priorites
  • Data on previous budgets and the impact of current budget proposals on state and local areas
  • Subjects include jobs, education, hunger, health care, taxes, and children

• Working Poor Families Project (Annie B. Casey Foundation)
  • Spreadsheets showing number of working and nonworking families by state who earn less than the poverty level
  • Data coverage is 2000-2002

Education

• Apology by Secretary of Education
  • Apology for terming the National Education Association lobbyists a "terrorist group" at the National Governors Association meeting
  • Secretary Rod Paige made the remarks and apology on Feb. 23, 2004

• Education Commission of the States
  • Database comparing state plans for implementing No Child Left Behind

• National Governors Association
  • Policy recommendations for implementing the NCLB act

• No Child Left Behind (Education Dept)
  • Program requires schools to test students on reading and math
  • Parents of children in schools which fail to meet standards two years in a row can send them to different schools at district expense
  • Tutoring for children in schools behind standards for three years
  • Web site has regulations, information for teachers and parents
  • Link to a searchable database of individual School Results

Election 2000

• See Election 2000 for complete coverage

• Almanac of American Politics (UMich Only)
  • Presidential election results for each Congressional District is found under the description of the district and its representative
  • See 2002 edition for original 2000 district boundaries; see 2004 for the 2003 district boundaries

• Florida Ballots Project (National Opinion Research Center)
  • Data tables on the recount project conducted of Florida ballots in 2001

• Florida Ballots Study (CNN)
  • Detailed methodology, including pictures
  • Election reform efforts in Florida

• Supreme Court
  • Supreme Court Decision (SC - pdf)
    • Complex decision rendered on December 12, 2000
    • Reverses Florida manual recount due to lack of standards
    • Remands decision to Florida Supreme Court to establish standards
    • Says time has run out; December 12 is legitimate deadline
    • Another Copy (Cornell)
      • HTML and PDF formats for per curiam decision, one concurrence, and four dissents
    • Another Copy (CNN - pdf)
    • Another Copy (Court TV - pdf)
  • Bush Brief (C-Span)
    • 57 pages in pdf
    • Filed December 10, 2000
  • Gore Brief (C-Span)
    • 58 pages in pdf
    • Filed December 10, 2000
  • Supreme Court Hearing (CNN)
    • Transcript of hearing held on December 11, 2000
    • Another Copy (C-Span)

• Voting Irregularities in Florida during the 2000 Presidential Election (Civil Rights Commission)
  • Links to documents and letters
  • Initial report claims problem in Florida was disenfranchisement rather than recount
  • Copy from GPO

Energy

• Energy Information Administration
  • Access current and historic data on various energy sources, including production, consumption, prices, and foreign trade
  • Includes in-depth research reports, such as the August 2003 gasoline price spike

• Walker v. Cheney
  • Chronology by GAO of its attempts to get names of participants on Vice President Cheney's Energy Task Force
  • Judge ultimately ruled in favor of Mr. Cheney and the General Accounting Office aborted its attempt

Environment

• Clear Skies Initiative
  • Senate Environment Committee hearing of June 5, 2003
  • President's Announcement of Clear Skies Initiative

• Global Warming
  • Climate Change Impacts on the United States
    • Full text of report found under Overview
    • PDF only; divided into chapters, some about 2 MB
  • EPA Global Warming Web Site
    • Divided into climate, emissions, impact, and actions
    • Easy-to-understand text with concrete examples and charts
    • A visitor center gears the information for various users (wildlife advocates, health professionals, citizens, meteorologists)
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Changes
    • Text of United Nations treaty and list of ratifications
    • Text of documents from previous and forthcoming conventions
    • Text of the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions
    • Reports on the implementation of various agreements

Gay Marriage

• Bush Statement on Constitutional Amendment
  • Text of President's announcement supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage
  • Made at the White House on February 24, 2004

• Constitution of the United States Annotated
  • Official text of the constitution and amendments annotated with Supreme Court cases
  • Only 33 amendments were approved by Congress and 27 ratified by the states
  • Text of Unratified Amendments

• Constitutional Amendment
  • H.J.Res 106
    • Text of bill defeated in the House on Sept. 30, 2004
    • Roll Call Vote (227-Y; 186-N)
  • S.J.Res.40
    • Text of bill
    • Motion to proceed with consideration withdrawn on July 15, 2004

• Defense of Marriage Act
  • Federal legislation passed in 1996 describing marriage as involving one man and one woman
  • PL 104-199; H.R. 3396

• Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health (Mass Supreme Court)
  • Text of Massachusetts Supreme Court decision on Nov. 18, 2003 requiring state to permit gay marriages by May 2004
  • Advisory Opinion to State Senate
    • Opinion dated Feb. 3, 2004 that clarifies intent: gay marriage and rather than civil unions required by May 2004 in Massachusetts
    • Another Copy of Draft Opinion

• Lawrence v. Texas
  • Supreme Court Decision of June 26, 2002 outlawing sodomy ban in Texas

• Marriage Laws by State
  • Human Rights Campaign
    • State-by-state laws on same sex marriage, adoption, custody, non-discrimination, sodomy, and surrogacy
    • Also includes pending legislation and ballot proposals
  • Marriage Laws State-by-State (Family Research Council)
    • Quotes laws of those states which have defined marriage as a man-woman relationship

• Polling Report
  • Public opinion polls on a gay marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution and state civil union laws

• Vermont Guide to Civil Unions
  • Step-by-step buide to applying for a civil union certificate
  • Frequently-asked questions

Foreign Opinion

• Year After Iraq War (Pew Research Center)
  • Public opinion poll of U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan on all aspects of Iraq War and relations with U.S.
  • Covers opinions at various dates between April 2002 and March 2004
  • Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, effectiveness of war on terrorism, which agency best to reconstruct Iraq
  • Favorability ratings of Bush, Blair, Annan and Bin Laden
  • Includes Christian and Muslim breakdowns

Gun Control

• Assault Weapons Ban
  • Text of Public Law 103-322, Title IX, passed 1994
  • Expired on September 13, 2004
• Center for the Prevention of Handgun Violence
  • Advocacy group headed by Sarah Brady
  • State gun control laws, including child access laws and waiting periods
  • National gun law loopholes and proposed legislation
  • Firearm facts
• Criminal Victimization, 2003 (BJS)
  • Government report showing significant drop in crime since 1994, year of assault weapons ban
• Gun Control v. Gun Rights (Open Secrets)
  • This 2004 article analyzes the campaign contributions of the gun rights v. gun control groups
  • Table of gun rights votes arranged by name of Congressman with the campaign contributions received from gun rights groups and his/her vote with the guns rights position
• National Annenberg Election Survey
  • Survey released on April 23, 2004 shows 2/3 of American public wants assault weapons ban extended
  • Includes 57% of gun-owning households and 32% of National Rifle Association members
• National Rifle Association
  • Federal and state laws and firearms
  • Proposed federal legislation on guns
  • Statements on Smith and Wesson agreement

Health & Stem Cell Research

• Elections 2004 (Kaiser Network)
  • Candidate positions on AIDs, stem cell research, health care access issues, women, Medicare and SCHIP
  • Numerous public opinion polls on health care

Health Insurance Coverage

• Medicare
  • Medicare Trustees Report
    • 2004 report shows that the trust fund will dissipate by 2019

  • Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage
    • Public Law 108-173
      • Text of the medicare prescription drug law passed by Congress in December 2003
      • Originally H.R. 1, 108th Congress
      • Includes legislative history, amendments, speeches in the Congressional Record, and roll call votes
    • CQ Weekly Report (UMich Only)
      • Search for the politics of passage
      • A summary of provisions appears in the Jan. 24, 2004 issue, p. 238
    • AARP Prescription Drugs
      • Description of the new law, a Medicare benefits calculator, and the reason AARP supported the bill
      • Next step campaign to lower the cost of prescription drugs
    • Families USA (Families USA)
      • Numerous reports on the cost of prescription drugs
      • Organization's lobby efforts
    • House of Representatives Prescription Drug Task Force
      • Numerous reports and studies on cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. versus foreign countries, cost to seniors as opposed to HMOs, and drug company profits
      • Authors include the Congressional Research Service and lobby groups
    • Bush: New Medicare Price Tag Means "Tough Choices" (CNN)
      • News report dated January 30, 2004
      • OMB estimates Medicare prescription drug package to cost $535 billion rather than CBO's estimate of $400 billion over 10 years

• Health Insurance
  • Census Bureau
    • Longitudinal and cross-sectional health insurance statistics by state and various socioeconomic characteristics
    • Data covers 1987-2002
  • Losing Health Insurance (Families USA)
    • Investigative report finds 675,000 people lost health insurance coverage in 1997 as direct result of welfare reform
    • Minority children most likely to lack coverage
  • State Children's Health Insurance Program (HCFA)
    • Provides grants to states for providing health insurance to poorer children under medicaid
    • State statistics on enrollment
    • Laws, regulations, and individual state plans
  • Uninsured in America (PBS News Hour)
    • National survey results (pdf format) of public perceptions of the numbers and causes for people without health insurance coverage
    • Surveys of the uninsured about the effects and problems they encounter
    • Pop-up menus with a chronology of health insurance in America, individual state requirements for child health coverage, and the percent of non-elderly who are uninsured

Homeland Security

• Tracking Federal Homeland Security Funds Sent to the 50 State Governments
  • Survey of 215 cities shows percentage which have not received funds for anti-terrorism programs in FY 2003 and FY 2004
  • Report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, dated January 2004

• USA Patriot Act (EPIC)
  • Analysis of the act's provisions
  • News stories on challenge to the act
  • Numerous government and private association provisions on the act, including its secrecy, search-and-seizure, and wiretap provisions

Iraq

• See complete Documents Center coverage in Iraq War Debate

• Casualties
  • Iraq Coalition Casualties
    • Count for U.S., UK and other casualties by month
    • Casualty names, circumstances, numerous maps
  • U.S. and Coalition Casualties (CNN)
    • Picture, name, age, unit, hometown, and circumstances of death
  • Iraqi Civilian Casualties

• Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD (CIA)
  • Concludes that Iraq had no secret cache of Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • Saddam's capacity to create them weakened after 1991
  • Written by Charles Duelfer of the Iraq Survey Group
  • Posted to the web on October 6, 2004 but too large to be usable
  • Summary (readable)
  • Prepared Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on October 6, 2004
  • University of Michigan Copy of Duelfer Report
    • Volume 1 (52.5 MB)
      • Transmittal, Acknowledgements, Scope Note (1.59 MB)
      • Regime Strategic Intent (2.2 MB)
      • Regime Strategic Intent Annexes (2.34 MB)
      • Regime Finance and Procurement, p. 1-71 (11.6 MB)
      • Regime Finance and Procurement, p. 72-141 (8 MB)
      • Regime Finance and Procurement Annexes A (4.8 MB)
      • Regime Finance and Procurement Annexes B-C (12.5 MB)
      • Regime Finance and Procurement Annexes D-H (9.56 MB)
      • Regime Finance and Procurement Annexes I-L (3.97 KB)
    • Volume 2 (74.2 MB)
      • Delivery Systems (14.1 MB)
      • Delivery Systems Annexes (8.12 MB)
      • Nuclear (12.6 MB)
      • Nuclear Annexes A-B (7.32 MB)
      • Nuclear Annexes C-D (3.87 MB)
      • Nuclear Annex E (64 KB)
      • Nuclear Annex F, p. 1-5 (12.4 MB)
      • Nuclear Annex F, p. 6-10 (14.7 MB)
      • Nuclear Annex G (2.2 MB)
    • Volume 3 (71.6 MB)
      • Chemical Weapons (8.7 mb)
      • Chemical Weapons Annex A (7.95 MB)
      • Chemical Weapons Annex B (8.8 MB)
      • Chemical Weapons Annexex C-F (10.3 MB)
      • Chemical Weapons Annex G (15.2 MB)
      • Biological Weapons (10.5 MB)
      • Biological Weapons Annexes (9.11 MB)
      • Glossary (94 KB)

• Cost of War in Iraq
  • Running cost of the Iraq war in the United States as a whole
  • May be broken down by per person or per household
  • Compares war costs with the cost of hiring teachers, granting college scholarships, public housing, children's health, and public education

• Iraq Arms Inspector Casts Doubt on WMD Claims
  • Tape of National Public Radio Interview with David Kay aired on January 25, 2004
  • Kay resigned from WMD hunt
  • No war-ready WMD found although there may have been some movement of weapons to Syria
  • Audio for Real Player or Windows Media Player
  • For transcript, University of Michigan affiliates should use Academic Universe; Guided News Search/News Transcripts/NPR; then search for Kay and Iraq in headline on Jan. 25, 2004
  • His testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Jan. 28, 2004 is only available electronically through C-Span using RealPlayer

• Congressional Resolution - 2002
  • Daschle Hopes to Limit Iraq Resolution (CNN)
    • Senate Majority Tom Daschle wants to limit war powers to eliminating Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction
    • Believes broader resolution sets a precedent for other countries
    • Article also describes Ted Kennedy's views
    • Based on interviews conducted October 6, 2002
  • H.J.R. 114 - BILL PASSED BY CONGRESS
    • Bill agreement between Dennis Hastert, Dick Gephardt, and President Bush
  • S. J. Res 45
    • Resolution authorizing the President's use of force in Iraq
    • Introduced by Tom Daschle and Trent Lott on September 26, 2002
  • S. J. Res. 46
    • Introduced by Carl Levin
  • Senate Debate
    • Congressional Record (Oct. 4, 2002, pp. 9933-9938)
    • Congressional Record (Oct. 7, 2002, pp. S60006-S60031)
    • Congressional Record (Oct. 8, 2002, pp. S60007-S60107)
    • Congressional Record (Oct. 9, 2002, pp. S60145-S60217)
    • Congressional Record (Oct. 10, 2002, pp. S60233-60272)
    • Congressional Record (Oct. 10, 2002, p. 60342)
    • Senate Roll Call Vote on HJR 114
      • Vote conducted in the wee hours of October 11, 2002, 77-23
      • Arranged by Senator, yea or nay, and state
  • House Debate
    • House Committee Report 107-721)
    • Congressional Record (Oct. 8, 2002. pp. H7189-7301)
    • Congressional Record (Oct. 9, 2002, pp. 7309-7735)
    • Congressional Record (Oct. 10, 2002, pp. H7739-H7799)
    • House Roll Call Vote on HJR 114
      • Vote passed House on October 10, 2002, 296 to 133
      • Arranged by yea and nay

• Iraq Liberation Act - 1998
  • Provides up to $97 Million in funding to support a transition government in Iraq
  • H.R. 4655, Public Law 105-338 (signed Oct. 31, 1998)

• Iraqi Special Weapons Guide (Global Security)
  • Extensive descriptions of Iraq's chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons programs
  • List of suspected chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons sites in Iraq, including geographic coordinates
  • Iraqi intelligence and deception activities
  • Links to United Nations resolutions and weapons inspection reports

• Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (CIA)
  • Concludes that Iraq had reconstituted chemical and biological weapons facilities
  • Iraq is one to five years away from having nuclear capability
  • Lists previous UN Security Council Resolutions and Iraq's actions
  • Lists chemical agents and previous use on Iranians and Kurds
  • Maps of chemical, biological, nuclear and ballistic facilities

• Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessment by the British Government
  • Fifty-five page report (pdf) presented by Prime Minister Tony Blair on September 24, 2002
  • Claims Iraq can launch WPM within 45 minutes of Saddam Hussein's order

• Niger Uranium
  • State of the Union Message
    • President Bush's message to Congress on January 28, 2003
    • Use "find" key and the keyword "uranium" to find the passage on Hussein's attempt to buy uranium from Africa
  • CIA Mea Culpa
    • Press release by George Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence, on July 11, 2003
    • Takes blame for approving statement of Iraq's uranium purchase bid appearing in the State of the Union message
    • Another Copy

• Over 340 Tons of High Explosives Missing From Iraq
  • UN press release of October 25, 2004
  • Report from IAEA head Mohammed ElBaradei that explosives lost over past year through theft and looting

• President Bush's Speech to the United Nations (2004)
  • Speech to General Assembly on September 21, 2004 suggesting a Democracy Fund

• United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
  • Body replaced UNSCOM in 1999 and is involved with 2002 inspection negotiations
  • Web site includes quarterly reports and historic documents

• United States Central Command
  • Transcripts of daily press briefings on the war
  • Reports of special investigations
  • Links to military magazines and various news sources

• Victory in Iraq (House Republicans)
  • Accomplishments of the Iraq War
  • Why America is safer
  • Tribute to the troops

• Woodward's Plan of Attack
  • Sixty Minutes Interview (CBS)
    • Extensive experts and videos of CBS interview with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on April 18, 2004
    • His book, Plan of Attack, says the Bush Administration began planning for the Iraq War shortly after 9/11/2001
    • Cheney's idea, Bush's Christian mission, Colin Powell not told, deal with Saudi Arabia to reduce gas prices in Fall 2004

Jobs and Salaries

• Academic Universe/LEXIS-NEXIS (UMich Only)
  • Choose Guided Search, then Transcripts/All Transcripts
  • Search jobs w/p export w/p overseas and IN FULL TEXT for recent television broadcasts about the export of U.S. jobs overseas

• Are U.S. Multinational Corporations "Exporting Jobs?" (BEA)
  • Presentation made by Ralph Kozlow on November 14, 2003

• Economic Report of the President
  • Job outsourcing is covered in Chapter 2 (manufacturing) and Chapter 12 (international)

• House Committee on Small Business
  • Selected hearings on the export of U.S. jobs overseas
  • Titles include:
    • Can U.S. Companies Compete Globally Using American Workers
    • Increasing Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturers
    • Offshoring of Highly Skilled Jobs

• Is Your Job Going Abroad?
  • Article by Jyoti Thottam appearing in Time Magazine, March 1, 2004, pp. 26-36
  • Describes of jobs moving abroad, the causes, and long-term outlook

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Detailed national, state, and local employment and unemployment rates
  • Data on displaced workers by cause
  • Job Losses and Gains appear Business Employment Dynamics section of its web site

• Local Employment Dynamics (Census Bureau)
  • Quarterly data since 1997 on employment, job creation, job loss, and monthly earnings
  • Geography: counties and large cities in 25 states (not Michigan)
  • Links to data sources for low wage work, transportation, pensions, and productivity

• Real Earnings (BLS)
  • Archived press releases since 1994 showing a change in real earnings (salary v. inflation)

Military Service

• George Bush
  • Bush National Guard Records (White House)
    • Press conference by Scott McClellan on February 10, 2004
    • Questions about White House proof of Bush service in the National Guard in 1972/73
    • Memo from Albert C. Lloyd on successful completion (Washington Post, 2/11/04)
    • USAF Reserve Personnel Record (Washington Post, 2/11/04)
    • Statement of Points Earned, 1972/73 (Washington Post, 2/11/04)
    • Payroll Records (Washington Post, 2/11/04)
    • Dental Record, Jan. 6, 1973 (Findlaw, 2/12/04)
  • Bush a Military Deserter? Calm Down, Michael (FactCheck)
    • Annenberg Center's investigation of charge that President Bush deserted the National Guard
    • Analysis of news reports

• John Kerry
  • Military Service Record
    • Chronology of military service
    • PDF copies of awards, training, payments, and discharge
  • Testimony Against the War in Vietnam
    • John Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971 representing Vietnam Veterans Against the War
    • Hearing title: Legislative Proposals Relating to the War in Southeast Asia, p. 180-210
    • SUDOCS Number: Y4.F76/2:As4/13; CIS Microfiche Number 1971 S381-18; UMich Call number: JX 1405 .A3 1971b (Buhr)
    • Copy of Prepared Statement

Skull and Bones Society (Yale)

• CBS 60 Minutes Presentation
  • Description of exclusive society at Yale to which Bush and Kerry belong
  • Aired on October 6, 2003

• Nationmaster
  • Brief encyclopedic article about the organization

• Prominent Members of Skull and Bones
  • Alphabetic list dating from 1833

Social Security

• George W. Bush
  • On the Issues

• John Edwards
  • On the Issues

• Alan Greenspan
  • Statement before House Budget Committee
    • Warns of possible need to cut Social Security benefits or government spending
    • Made February 25, 2004
  • Response by AARP CEO William Novelli

• John Kerry
  • On the Issues

• Ralph Nader
  • On the Issues

• Polling Report
  • Public opinion polls on social security with the most recent first
  • Primarily covers future availability of Social Security and whether private accounts should be developed

• Social Security Trustees Report: 2004
  • Social Security funds to become stretched, 2010-2030 and exhausted by 2042

Terrorism

• See complete Documents Center coverage in America's War Against Terrorism. Additional coverage under Homeland Security

• ABC News on Terrorist Attacks
  • Detailed analysis, public opinion polls
  • First hand accounts, video and audio, slide shows

• Attack on America: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Terrorism (East Carolina University)
  • Annotated bibliography of U.S. government and private research reports on terrorism
  • Includes hearings and Congressional Research Service reports

• Bin Laden Pre-Election Speech (Al Jazeera)
  • Full text of videotape aired on Al Jazeera, October 30, 2004
  • Osama bin Laden discusses reasons for attacking the U.S.
  • Historical backup
  • Excerpts and reaction from CBS

• Commission on National Security/21
  • Known as the Hart-Rudman Commission
  • New World Coming
    • Phase I report issued in October 1999
    • Recommends a cabinet-level position for protection of the homeland
    • Full text also available in paper copy in the Graduate Library under the title New World Coming (UA 23 .N471 1999)
    • Summary available from the USIA
  • Seeking a National Strategy: A Concert for Preserving Security and Freedom (UNT)
    • Phase II report issued in April 2000
  • Roadmap for National Security: Imperative for Change (UNT)
    • Phase III report issued in February 2001
    • Changes needed in federal government organization
  • American Still Unprepared - America Still in Danger
    • Hart-Rudman report issued October 2002
    • Believes the United States is so involved formation of Dept. of Homeland Security that it hasn't taken needed action to protect Americans
    • Recommends priority should be given to port security, training of local police and national guard
    • Issued by the Council on Foreign Relations

• FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists
  • List of the 22 terrorists most wanted by the FBI
  • Description, charges against them, and pictures
  • Released October 10, 2001

• National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States (9/11 Commission)
  • Independent commission headed by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton
  • Final report on full circumstances surrounding the attack, prevention errors and response due in July 2004
  • Web site includes the full text of public hearings and a series of interim reports

• Richard Clarke Book
  • Former terrorism advisor for Republican and Democratic administrations
  • Book entitled Against All Enemies released on March 22, 2004 alleges President Bush's initial negligence on the war against terror
  • Clarke's Take on Terror (CBS)
    • News story describing CBS 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl on March 21, 2004
    • Excerpts of book
  • Text of 60 Minutes Interview
    • UMich affiliates should go to Lexis-Nexis Academic
    • Choose Guided News Search/Transcripts/CBS Transcripts
    • Search Richard Clarke in Headline/Lead Paragraph and date as 3/21/2004
  • Bush Administration Rebuttal (CNN)

General Election Results - 2004

• 2004 Election Results (CNN)
  • Results by office (President, Senate, House, Governor, Ballot Proposals) and then subdivided by state
  • Includes exit polls by state and final results by state and county
  • See http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/senate/full.list/ for complete Senate results
  • See http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/house/full.list/ for all House results

• Our Campaigns
  • Election results for President, Senate, House, and Governors by state
  • Each table provides votes of winner, percent, margin of victory, and percent of victory
  • Presidential table also includes state electoral votes and split electoral votes for state when applicable
  • Includes information on pre-election polls

• 2004 Election Results (CNN)
  • Results by office (President, Senate, House, Governor, Ballot Proposals) and then subdivided by state
  • Includes exit polls by state and final results by state and county
  • See http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/senate/full.list/ for complete Senate results
  • See http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/house/full.list/ for all House results

• Election 2004: Projected and Actual Vote Counts (Internet Public Library)
  • Bush and Kerry popular and electoral vote counts by state

• Maps and Cartograms of U.S. Presidential Election Results: 2004 (UMich)
  • Displays state and county presidential election results as standard geographic entities
  • Shows alternative mapping if population density is considered and maps presented as cartograms
  • Also displays county preference as a percent of the vote (e.g. counties that narrowly voted for Bush may display as purple rather than red
  • Maps prepared by Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman

• Presidential Candidate Statements
  • John Kerry Concession Speech
  • George Bush Victory Speech

• Presidential Election Map by State
  • Jeff Culver's map showing the presidential election by state in a continuum of red, purple and blue

• Presidential Election Map by County (Princeton)
  • Map showing Presidential results by county in a continuum from red to purple to blue
  • Additional maps show mountains and population density
  • By Robert Vanderbei

• Presidential Results by Congressional District
  • Not compiled in the normal course of elections
  • PoliData is a commercial source compiling the data for sale
  • Congressional district votes for president since 1992 are available as free .pdf documents; see the bottom of each state page found at: http://www.polidata.us/books/default.htm
  • Results from previous elections appear under Congressional District descriptions in Almanac of American Politics (UMich Only)

• Voting Behavior: The 2004 Election (UMich Only)
  • On-line textbook with exercises on using Berkeley's Data Analysis Software to measure the 2004 results and voter characteristics
  • Based on the American National Election Study of 2004 from ICPSR

• 2004 Election Results (CNN)
  • Results by office (President, Senate, House, Governor, Ballot Proposals) and then subdivided by state
  • Includes exit polls by state and final results by state and county
  • See http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/senate/full.list/ for complete Senate results
  • See http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/house/full.list/ for all House results

• House: 109th and 108th Congresses (UMich)
  • Spreadsheet showing House of Representatives membership for the 109th and 108th Congresses by state
  • Color coding shows retiring Congresspersons (pink) and new representatives (green)

• Senate: 109th and 108th Congresses (UMich)
  • Spreadsheet showing Senate membership for the 109th and 108th Congresses by state
  • Color coding shows retiring senators (pink), new senators (green), those winning re-election (gold), and continuing senators (white)

• Governors' Races (CNN)
  • Votes and percentages for the 11 gubernatorial races
  • Includes votes by county

• Secretary of State Offices (Political Resources)
  • Links to state Secretary of State offices
  • Individual web sites often have campaign information and election results

• Michigan Unofficial General Election Results (Secy. of State)
  • Results for President, school board, proposals, university governance, judgeships, and statewide proposals by county
  • Results for Congressional and state legislative districts by district

• Washtenaw County Election Results: November 2004
  • Votes for state and local office for the entire county and individual precincts
  • Includes voter turnout and people voting straight party tickets

Primaries and Caucuses

• Democratic Primary Scorecard (CNN)
  • Running count of delegates committed to individual Democratic candidates by state
  • Includes pledged by vote and unpledged (can decide on own)
  • Click on state for more information about the primaries and caucuses

• Calendars
  • State Primaries: 2004
    • List of primary elections by state or date
    • Primaries are statewide; they may or may not include Presidential preferences
  • Calendar of Democratic Primaries and Caucuses (GWU)
    • Arranged by month
    • Best source for caucus dates
  • Republican Party will not hold caucuses but will choose delegates to its convention

Election Laws

• Help America Vote Act
  • Passed in 2002 to assist states in migrating from punch card systems
  • Additional standardization provisions

• Provisional Voting Laws
  • Table listing states, a brief description of their provisional voting laws, and citation to the state statute
  • Compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures in 2001

• State Election Laws and Administrative Issues (National Association of Secretaries of State)
  • Tables compare election laws on absentee voting and vote counting, early voting, provisional ballots, same day registration
  • Includes section on counting punch card votes
  • Data comes from 2001 so some provisions may have changed

• Stateline
  • Campaign and election news from each of the states
  • Includes legal rulings on election issues

Election Monitoring

• Ballot Watch (ABC News)
  • Summary of voting problems by state on election day

• Election Observation (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
  • Handbooks and guidelines for democratic elections in member countries, including the U.S.
  • Database of election observers
  • OSCE will be monitoring the U.S. elections in November 2004

• International Team to Monitor Presidential Election (CNN)
  • House Democrats initially requested that UN monitor elections but UN turned request down and foreign aid bill prevented UN monitoring
  • Secretary of State Powell requested OSCE oversight

Electoral College

• 270 to Win
  • Map of electoral college votes since 1789
  • Interactive map of electoral college for 2004
  • Begin by viewing the map as neutral, with 2000 results, or imagined in 2004 (with red, blue and swing states)
  • Toggle to change the colors and determine a strategy

• Cases and Materials on American Federalism (Amber/Purdue)
  • Section on the Electoral College includes list of faithless electors, presidents who won by plurality rather than majority, and four cases where winners of the popular vote lost the election

• Colorado Amendment 36
  • Amendment allows for split in Colorado's electoral vote
  • On ballot for November 2, 2004 and could be used for the 2004 electoral results

• Electoral Vote
  • Electoral vote projections updated several times per day before the elections
  • Based on the latest public opinion polls

• United States Electoral College (NARA)
  • Electoral college laws and procedures
  • State-by-state electoral college votes, 1789-2004
  • Create your own electoral vote scenario

Voting Machine Malfunctions

Questions were raised prior to the election about the security of Diebold Company's election equipment. The questions resurfaced when malfunctioning equipment was discovered in one Ohio precinct. The discrepancy between exit polls, which showed Kerry a winner, and the final results, which re-elected Bush, also seemed puzzling. The Kerry camp and mainstream media have given minimal recognition to the topic.

• Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century
  • Full text of book written by Bev Harris and David Allen in 2003
  • Web site includes related web pages on ballot tampering and stories of the 2004 election
  • This web site is not affiliated with Bev Harris

• Black Box Voting (Bev Harris)
  • Investigations of vote tampering

• E-Voting News and Analysis
  • Daily news stories on electronic voting problems, inquiries and settlements across the country

• House Dems Seek Election Inquiry (Wired News)
  • Reps. Conyers, Nadler, and Wexler asked Government Accountability Office to investigate computer malfunctions in several states with equipment made by different companies
  • Article outlines voting problems and contains full text of letter

• Voters Unite
  • Detailed of voting problems by state/county, date, or type

• Voting Equipment State Summary (Election Data Services)
  • List of types of voting equipment by state for the November 2, 2004 election
  • Does not include numbers just the existence of the equipment
  

  
  

Voter Registration and Participation

Registration Information

• E-Democracy
  • Extensive links to voter registration information and encouraging voter turnout

• How to Register to Vote
  • State-by-state guide to voter registration laws, qualifications, deadlines
  • Procedure includes links to state agencies and the names of county clerks
  • Brief section of voting facts and close races won by a few votes

• State Voter Registration Offices (League of Women Voters)
  • Telephone number and web link to state election officials
  • Many states have on-line form for voter registration with instructions and application deadlines

• Voter Registration, 1952- (National Election Study)
  • National level voter registration data at two-year intervals since 1952
  • Data by political party, income, black/white, education, occupation, and union membership

• Voting Assistance Guide
  • Extensive voting assistance guide for military personnel
  • Presidential and state primary dates and runoff dates
  • Voter registration and instructions by state

Statistics

• National Election Studies (UMich-Center for Political Studies)
  • Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation studies
  • Studies 1994+ available for ftp for use with SAS or SPSS
  • Documentation in Word Perfect format
  • Web site includes 2000 Pre- and Post-Election Questionnaires
  • National Election Studies: 2004 has data for the pre- and post-election studies
  • Its Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public opinion, 1952 to present

• Road to American Democracy, 1984-1990 (Harvard/MIT Data Center)
  • Variables include 100% population items from the 1990 Census (race, households, families) plus biennial voting and registration data, 1984-1990, for cities and townships
  • Registration and voting data by voting precinct, 1984-1990
  • Data may be downloaded in zipped format or searched on line and cross-tabulated
  • Reviewing the codebook (pdf or zipped format) is necessary to use the data
  • Data results in SPSS, SAS, STATA, and sometimes ASCII formats

• State by State Quick Facts (Civil Liberties)
  • 2004 voter registration and electoral college votes by state
  • No way of determining how current the data is

• Voting and Registration Data (Census Bureau)
  • Sociodemographic characteristics of voters (age, race, sex, employment, and education status) since 1964
  • Does not include who people voted for
  • Projections of voting age population for the current election by state and then age, race, sex

• Vanishing Voter (Harvard)
  • Weekly poll on public interest in 2000 Presidential elections
  • Data and press releases begin with November 1999

Presidential Appointments

Cabinet Changes

Position	First Administration Incumbent	Second Administration Nominee
Agriculture	Ann Veneman	Mike Johanns
Commerce	Don Evans	Carlos Gutierrez
Defense	Donald Rumsfeld	Donald Rumsfeld
Education	Rod Paige	Margaret Spellings
Energy	Spencer Abraham	Sam Bodman
Health and Human Services	Tommy Thompson	Mike Leavitt
Homeland Security	Tom Ridge	Michael Chertoff
Housing and Urban Development	Alphonso Jackson	Alphonso Jackson
Interior	Gale Norton	Gale Norton
Justice	John Ashcroft	Alberto Gonzalez
Labor	Elaine Chao	Elaine Chao
State	Colin Powell	Condoleeza Rice
Transportation	Norman Mineta	Norman Mineta
Treasury	John Snow	John Snow(?)
Veterans Affairs	Anthony Principi	Jim Nicholson
Central Intelligence Agency	Porter Goss	...
Environmental Protection Agency	Mike Leavitt	Stephen Johnson
Federal Bureau of Investigation	Robert Mueller	...
Federal Reserve System BOG	Alan Greenspan	Alan Greenspan
NASA Administrator	Sean O'Keefe	...
National Intelligence Director	...	John Negroponte
National Security Adviser	Condoleeza Rice	Stephen Hadley
OMB Director	Joshua Bolten	...
UN Ambassador	John Danforth	...
White House Chief of Staff	Andrew Card	Andrew Card

• Plum Book
  • List of positions available for Presidential appointment, pay scale, and incumbent
  • "Plum" refers to "Political Plum"
• Presidential Appointee Initiative (Brookings)
  • Practical guide to people receiving job offer from the incoming administration
  • Offices available, making the decision, dealing with the press, life after government service
  • Requisite forms, appointment process, Senate confirmation hearings
  • Also includes articles and nomination rumors
• Prune Book 1997
  • Administrative skills needed for federal executive jobs
  • Prepared by industry to assist changes in administration

HISTORICAL ELECTIONS

Historical Campaigns

• America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special Collections Library
  • Photographs of campaign buttons, posters and brochures since 1796
  • Extent of coverage varies with the election

• Ease History (MSU)
  • Clips of television Presidential campaign ads, 1952-2004
  • Uses flash player
  • Searchable by year, winners/losers, positive/negiative, issues, and themes
  • Stunning piece of research

• Livingroom Candidate (American Museum of the Moving Image)
  • At least one campaign video apiece for each of the major Presidential candidates, 1952-2000
  • Available in a variety of viewing formats, including RealPlay and Windows Media

Historic Election Results

• 270 to Win
  • Map of electoral college votes since 1789
  • Interactive map of electoral college for 2004
  • Begin by viewing the map as neutral, with 2000 results, or imagined in 2004 (with red, blue and swing states)
  • Toggle to change the colors and determine a strategy

• America Votes (Richard Scammon)
  • Votes for President and Governor by state and county beginning 1952
  • Votes for Members of Congress by Congressional District beginning 1946
  • Only available in paper copy: Reference Room JK 1967 .A1 A68
  • Two-year time lag between the general elections and publication date

• Clerk of the House
  • Historical data includes national electoral college results since the 1st Congress, Presidential and Senatorial election results by state and House by district since 1920
  • Data on the political divisions in Congress since the 34th Congress

• CNN
  • Consistent for retaining old election results on the internet
  • Includes exit polls which provide presidential votes by voter demographics
  • The Vote '96
  • Election 1998
  • Election 2000
  • Election 2002
  • Election 2004

• CQ Voting and Elections Collection (UMich Only)
  • Use main screen to search for statewide election results for President and Congress, (primary, general and caucus), 1789 to present
  • Main screen includes articles and selected documents on the election process and political parties, browsable within category or searchable by keyword (e.g. internet voting)
  • Side frame permits manipulation of party control and party split data
  • Export/download on side frame provides Excel spreadsheets of historic Presidential, Gubernatorial and Congressional elections by state and county or Congressional District; equivalent of paper America Votes

• David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
  • Maps and tables with Presidential votes since 1860
    • Maps outline state electoral votes
    • Tables show major and independent presidential and vice presidential candidates, popular and electoral votes, and percentages for both
  • County election data for 1912, 1968, and 1980-2000
  • County map of Presidential vote for 2000
  • This is truly wonderful!

• National Election Studies (UMich-Center for Political Studies)
  • Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation studies
  • Studies 1994+ available for ftp for use with SAS or SPSS
  • Documentation in Word Perfect format
  • Web site includes 2000 Pre- and Post-Election Questionnaires
  • National Election Studies: 2004 is being organized as of January 2004
  • Its Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public opinion, 1952 to present

• Road to American Democracy, 1984-1990 (Harvard/MIT Data Center)
  • Variables include 100% population items from the 1990 Census (race, households, families) plus biennial voting and registration data, 1984-1990, for cities and townships
  • Registration and voting data by voting precinct, 1984-1990
  • Data may be downloaded in zipped format or searched on line and cross-tabulated
  • Reviewing the codebook (pdf or zipped format) is necessary to use the data
  • Data results in SPSS, SAS, STATA, and sometimes ASCII formats

• United States Electoral College (NARA)
  • Electoral college laws and procedures
  • State-by-state electoral college votes, 1789-2000
  • Create your own electoral vote scenario

• Voter Registration, 1952- (National Election Study)
  • National level voter registration data at two-year intervals since 1952
  • Data by political party, income, black/white, education, occupation, and union membership

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

MIRLYN

• Connect via MIRLYN-WebMCAT lists books within the University of Michigan Library system.
• Searchable by author, title, subject, keyword

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS Controlled vocabulary Used for Foreign material When too many common keywords Find through LC Subject List (Library) Record retrieved through keyword searching

• Library of Congress Subject Headings: By Subject
  • Campaign funds--United States
  • Democratic Party (U.S.)
  • Electioneering--United States
  • Lobbying--United States
  • Political action committees--United States
  • Political participation--United States
  • Presidents--United States--Election--1972
  • Pressure groups--United States
  • Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-)
  • United States--Elections
  • Voting--United States
  • In MIRLYN Web Advanced Searching, you don't need to know exact order (e.g. voting and united states or united states and voting)

Boolean Logic

• Keyword Searching

Illustration	MIRLYN-Web	Proquest	PAIS	Academic Universe	IPSA	WNC	Google
PHRASE	"campaign finance"	"campaign finance"	campaign w finance	campaign finance	campaign finance	campaign()finance	"campaign finance"
AND	"campaign finance" and reform	"campaign finance" and reform	campaign w finance and reform	campaign finance and reform	campaign finance and reform	campaign()finance and reform	"campaign finance" reform
OR	elections or voting	elections or voting	elections or voting	elections or voting	elections or voting	elections or voting	elections or voting
NOT	voting not elections	voting and not elections	voting not elections	voting and not elections	voting not elections	voting not elections	voting -elections
COMPLEX SEARCHING	"campaign finance" and (PAC or "political action")	"campaign finance" and (PAC or "political action")	campaign w finance and (PAC or political w action)	campaign finance and (PAC or political action)	campaign finance and (PAC or political action)	campaign()finance and (pac or political()action)	"campaign finance" (pac or "political action")
TRUNCATION	election? or election*	election?	election?	election!	election*	election?	NA

Boolean Protocols of Political Science Data Bases

Periodicals [Web]

	Use SFX button to link to the online journal text OR University of Michigan catalog for the paper copy call number OR Inter-Library Loan

Comprehensive Sources

• International Political Science Abstracts, 1989+ [http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=c135082&databases=IPSA] (UMich Only)
  • Index to scholarly political science journal articles in Western European languages
  • Choose IPSA from the menu first; go to the next screen before searching
  • Sample search: Iraq near economic sanctions
  • Searches may be recombined
  • Data includes author, title, journal, and abstract in English if the article is in English
  • If the article is in another language, the title is translated into English but the abstract is in French

• JSTOR (UMich Only) [http://www.jstor.org/jstor/]
  • Full text of major 20th Century historical and economic periodicals as well as the American Political Science Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and World Politics
  • Most periodicals available from 1900-98
  • Index approaches by keyword, author, title, periodical
  • Printing and downloading requires application/tifflist or Adobe Acrobat

• Political Information [http://www.politicalinformation.com/]
  • Mega web index to public policy concerns
  • Indexes news, political parties, policy papers and interest group web sites

• Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin [http://firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=PAISIntl;FSIP] (UMich Only)
  • Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on politics and economics since 1972 in Western European languages
  • Government documents include United States, United Nations, League of Nations, and State Governments
  • Good for very current concepts, like suicide bombers
    • Sample Keyword Search: suicide w bomb?
  • There are also paper versions (English, 1915+, Z 7163 .P98 and foreign, 1968+, Z 7164 .E2 P96)

• ProQuest (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
  • Research Library indexes some 2300 journals in all fields since the 1980s and provides the full text of many since the 1990s (marked by a full-page symbol)
  • Includes popular and scholarly titles, such as the American Political Science Review and American Politics Quarterly
  • Journals indexed by author, title, keyword, periodical, and date
  • Sample searches
    "campaign finance reform"
    campaign finance and reform
    campaign finance and (reform or bills or legislation)
    campaign finance and (reform or bill? Or legislation)
  • Articles may be marked for downloading

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (UMich Only)
  • Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature since 1975
  • Political science and complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy
  • Indexes foreign language journals and translates the title into English

• JSTOR (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
  • Full text of scholarly journals in the social science fields
  • Political science journals archived from about 1900 to within the past five years

• Political Information
  • Mega web index to public policy concerns
  • Indexes news, political parties, policy papers and interest group web sites

• Social Sciences Citation Index 1956- (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
  • Indexes current periodical articles by author, title/keyword, journal, and author's affiliation
  • Indexes cited authors by name, abbreviated title of book/journal and year
  • Results provide cross references between the cited author, the citating author, and related items
  • Use SFX link to determine if library has the article online, in paper, or can borrow on Inter-Library Loan

Individual Titles

• Ballot Access News
  • Non-partisan newsletter on voting issues within the states
  • Archived since 1994

• Campaigns and Elections (Congressional Quarterly)
  • Election news, political odds on the candidates
  • Rate Your Rep for comparing voter views against those of a Congressperson
  • Political services and buyer's guide
  • Some sections require password
  • Full text of periodical available to University of Michigan affiliates through Proquest

• Congressional Quarterly (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
  • Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
  • Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
  • Political party and election analysis
  • Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
  • Separate index for roll call votes beginning 1995
  • Prior to 1983, use Congressional Quarterly Almanac, (Doc.Cen. JK 1 .C756--Ref.)

• National Journal (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
  • National Journal focuses on the politics of the Executive Branch with some reference to current legislation
  • Full text since 1977 available through the University of Michigan's campus license to Congressional Universe

• Presidential Studies Quarterly (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
  • Full text available since 1994 on Proquest

Newspapers [Web]

• Academic Universe/Lexis (UMich Only)
  • Full text of newspapers for the United States and its major cities
  • Time coverage varies but may extend to 20 years
  • Also business, entertainment, and legal news

• Blue Eagle Columnists
  • Links to commentaries from 325 political columnists and political cartoons

• Drudge Report
  • Links to current articles of political columnists

• New York Times
  • Full text of today's New York Times and a searchable archive
  • Initial registration required
  • Registration currently free in the U.S. but organization reserves the right to charge
  • Serials/Microforms has microfilm edition, 1851+ (FILM X979)
  • Paper index in Reference Room, 1943+ as AI 21 .N53 with 1851-1942 in Graduate Library stacks
  • Academic Universe (UMich Only) indexes the Times, 1969-79; full text begins in 1980
  • Full Text, 1851-1999 (UMich Only) also available

• Newslink
  • Lists online newspapers by state and foreign country
  • Includes foreign language papers

• Opinion Pages
  • Full text of opinion and news commentary from around the world
  • Separate sections for politics, business, technology, sports, health, and arts
  • Searchable by keyword or browsable by geography

• Roll Call
  • Current day's news in Congress
  • State-by-state coverage of the Congressional elections

• USA Today
  • Daily articles on news, sports, weather and finances
  • Archival file of the top news stories

• Washington Post
  • Full text of current issue and searchable archive
  • International section has news and web links to individual countries
  • National section has new and web links to individual states
  • Searchable index creates maps for individual U.S. business establishments

• World News Connection (UMich Library Only) [http://wnc.dialog.com/]
  • Full text of foreign news broadcasts and press releases translated into English beginning November 1994
  • Use for foreign opinions of presidential race
  • Searchable by keyword, region and subject, or Boolean logic and modified by date
  • Regions are:
    Central Eurasia
    China
    East Asia
    East Europe
    West Europe
    Latin America
    Near East and South Asia
    Sub-Saharan Africa

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