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ELECTION RESULTS AND VOTING
General Election Results - 2006 |
General Election Results - 2004
Voter Registration & Participation |
Historical Election Results
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Comprehensive Web Sites |
Election Laws |
Election Process |
Voter Registration
CANDIDATES
Congressional Candidates |
Congressional Districts
Forecasting |
Michigan Candidates/Proposals |
State Candidates/Proposals
CAMPAIGN
Advertising |
Campaign Finances |
Candidate Resources |
Lobby Groups
Lobby Group Ratings |
Media Coverage |
Platforms |
Political Parties |
Public Opinion Polls
POLICY ISSUES
Comprehensive |
Abortion
Affirmative Action |
Economics |
Education |
Energy |
Environment
Federal Deficit |
Gay Marriage |
Health Insurance Coverage |
Homeland Security
Iraq |
Immigration |
Katrina |
Medicare |
Prisoners of War |
Stem Cell Research
Social Security |
Terrorism
ELECTION RESULTS AND VOTING
General Election Results - 2006 |
General Election Results - 2004
Voter Registration & Participation |
Historical Election Results
ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Books |
Periodicals |
News Sources
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Last updated on January 29,
2008
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- 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, voter turnout, and right-to-vote issues
- CQ Voting and Elections
Collection (UMich Only)
- Browse the main screen under Campaigns and Elections for articles on the election process
- 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.)
- Although the entire textbook is available on a fee basis, parts are available free to the public
- 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 Elections for links to additional articles in the
Academic American Encyclopedia and
Encyclopedia Americana
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- America Votes
(CNN)
- List of state primary dates
- Key contested races by state with a little background
- Some of the campaign issues
- Congress.org
- State-by-state information on voter registration and upcoming elections
- Links to
Congressional and state legislative races by state
- Decision 2006: Battleground America (MSNBC)
- Map and analysis of the key gubernatorial and Congressional races
- Current campaign news
- Elections
(Vanderbilt)
- Well-organized links to election web sites for 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008
- Includes candidates, parties, campaign finances, and voter
registration
- New
York Times Election Guide
- Separate maps show Senate, House, and Gubernatorial races
- Maps are color coded to indicate safe Democrat or Republican,
leaning Democrat or Republican, and toss up
- Click on state or district to bring up the candidates and a
pre-election analysis
- Also permits user to create various scenarios
- Politics 1
(Politics 1)
- State-by-state listing of gubernatorial and Congressional candidates
and their web sites
- Republican, Democrat, and third party, as well as independents
- Practical information for candidates
- Project Vote Smart
- Use the top menu, Current Candidates, to access information about Congressional, Gubernatorial, and State Legislative Candidates
- Easiest web site to use for a complete list of all candidates
- 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
- Washington Post
Elections
- Congressional election news stories
- Search for political ADVERTISEMENTS which have aired
- Handicaps Congressional and Senatorial
races using the CQ Risk Ratings
- Wikipedia: United States Elections, 2006
- Extensive articles on gubernatorial and Congressional elections in each state
- Some analysis, links to campaign web sites, and public onion polls
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CANDIDATES
Candidates
- Balance
of Power Spreadsheets (UMich)
- Separate worksheets for the Senate, House, and Governors races on
November 7, 2006
- Each worksheet lists all incumbents from all states, colored for
party, with separate columns for the party, last name, and first name
- Three similar columns for the major candidates in each race
- A visual aid for election night which can be sorted or filtered to
determine specific changes in the balance of power
- 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
- State-by-state information on voter registration and upcoming elections
- 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
- Choose 109th Congress Boundaries and name the state
- Zip
to It (Juan
Cabanela)
- Put in five or nine
digit zip code to determine
senators and representatives
for the 109th Congress
- New
York Times Election Guide
- Separate maps show Senate, House, and Gubernatorial races
- Maps are color coded to indicate safe Democrat or Republican,
leaning Democrat or Republican, and toss up
- Click on state or district to bring up the candidates and a
pre-election analysis
- Also permits user to create various scenarios
- Politics 1
(Politics 1)
- State-by-state listing of gubernatorial and Congressional candidates
and their web sites
- Republican, Democrat, and third party, as well as independents
- Practical information for candidates
- Project Vote Smart
- Use the top menu, Current Candidates, to access information about Congressional, Gubernatorial, and State Legislative Candidates
- Easiest web site to use for a complete list of all candidates
- 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
- Washington Post
Elections
- Congressional election news stories
- Search for political ADVERTISEMENTS which have aired
- Handicaps Congressional and Senatorial
races using the CQ Risk Ratings
- Wikipedia: United States Elections, 2006
- Extensive articles on gubernatorial and Congressional elections in each state
- Some analysis, links to campaign web sites, and public onion polls
Incumbents
- 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
- List of incumbent governors and Senators and the dates they are up for re-election
- 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
- 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
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Forecasts
- Campaign 2006 (Washington Post)
- Handicaps races based on Congressional Quarterly risk rating
- Decision 2006: Battleground America (MSNBC)
- Lists ten most likely states to change party of governor, Senator and representative
- National Journal(UMich Only)
- Weekly list of Congressional and gubernatorial seats likely to switch parties
- New
York Times Election Guide
- Separate maps show Senate, House, and Gubernatorial races
- Maps are color coded to indicate safe Democrat or Republican,
leaning Democrat or Republican, and toss up
- Click on state or district to bring up the candidates and a
pre-election analysis
- Also permits user to create various scenarios
- Rhodes Cook Letter (UMich Only)
- Monthly journal on political trends
- Includes 2006 election predictions
- Senate
Predictions (David Leip's Election Atlas)
- Map showing likely gains and losses
- Predicts Republicans will keep Senate by one vote as of October 3,
2006
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Michigan Ballot
Proposals
- Summaries
- Michigan Ballot Proposals (Secretary of State)
- Text of the five proposals and their individual origins (petitions, bills, etc)
- List of proposals which will not be voted upon for various reasons
- Ballot Proposals (Citizens' Research Council of Michigan)
- Text of the five ballot proposals, with a summary, analysis, and actual ballot language
- Proposal 06-1: Constitutional Protection of DNR Funds
- Proposal 06-2: Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (i.e. ban affirmation action programs
- Proposal 06-3: Referendum on Mourning Dove Hunting
- Proposal 06-4: Eminent Domain
- Proposal 06-5: Educational Funding Guarantee Law
Michigan
Candidates Statewide
- Michigan
Primary Election Results (August 2006)
- Votes for governor and senator by county
- Votes for Congressional or state representatives by district
- Not all districts had party primaries
- Michigan
Voter Power
- Information on voter registration and absentee ballots
- Definitions of terms
- Link to the Michigan voter guide
- Non-Partisan Voting Guide
for Michigan (League of Women Voters)
- Candidates answer questions for all state level races on Nov. 7,
2006
- Includes candidates for governor, the federal and state
legislatures, state courts, university governing boards
- Submissions by lobby groups on the ballot proposals
- Official
Candidate List, November 2006 (Secretary of State)
- List of all candidates for federal and state office on the November
7, 2006 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
- Michigan Democratic Party
- Democratic candidates for state office and gubernatorial news
- 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
- Gubernatorial campaign issues and Republicans on the state-wide ballot
- Michigan Voter Information Center
- Allows individuals to verify their voter registration status
- Locate polling place and learn how to use polling equipment
Washtenaw
County
- Washtenaw
County Clerk
- Ballot proposals and candidates throughout all county jurisdictions
- Primary results
- Campaign finances
- Voter registration information
- Ann Arbor
City Clerk
- Maps of voting wards and precincts
- Voter registration information
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- New
York Times Election Guide
- Separate maps show Senate, House, and Gubernatorial races
- Maps are color coded to indicate safe Democrat or Republican,
leaning Democrat or Republican, and toss up
- Click on state or district to bring up the candidates and a
pre-election analysis
- Also permits user to create various scenarios
- State-by-State:
Ballot Issues and Campaign Finance (PBS)
- Click on map to find links to the state ballot initiatives in each
of the states, usually
from the Secretary of State
- Also a ranking of the state's campaign finance laws
- State Races (Stateline)
- Interactive map with the candidates for governor, secretary of state, and attorneys general in each of the states
- Governors' Races (National Governors Association)
- Lists governors running for election by state
- 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 1999-2005 elections by city and date of inauguration
- See Newspapers for
additional local coverage.
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CAMPAIGN
- National
Journal Ad Spotlight (UMich Only)
- Campaign ads using Real Player since 1998
- Presidential, gubernatorial, and Congressional races
- RealPlayer is available at campus computing sites and can access all
of the ads in this series
- Political Ads (Washington Post)
- Video of 2006 Congressional and gubernatorial ads
- Searchable by candidate, party, narrator, type of music, etc
- Center for Responsive
Politics
- Non-partisan research group monitoring campaign reform
- Congressional campaign finance filings
- FECInfo (Tony
Raymond)
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- 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
- Follow the Money
- Candidates for state office and their campaign contributors
- Contributors by industry or special interest
- Follow the Money: Michigan
- Michigan gubernatorial and legislative candidates by their contributors
- Contributors by detailed industry
- 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
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- 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)
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Conservative Internet Sites
Issue-Oriented Groups
Liberal Internet
Sites
- 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
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- 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
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Political Parties
Political Parties
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Platforms
- Platforms
- Historic
Party Platforms (American Presidency Project)
- Full text of national party platforms, including major third parties, 1840-2000
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2006 Polls
- 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
- National Council on Public
Opinion Polls
- Principles of disclosure
- 20 questions journalists should ask when reading poll results
- 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 Presidents Clinton and Bush
- 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
- Real Clear
Politics
- Daily updates of the national and state polls
- Some news articles from both sides of the aisle
- Roper
Center/Public Opinion (UMich Only)
- To find polls about the 2006 elections
Click on the login button and give your email address
Choose topic "elections" and date 2006 to 2006
- Roper polls can also be searched in Academic Universe
(UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only) in the
Reference/Polls and Surveys section
Previous Polls
- American National Election Studies
- American
Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Special survey conducted in 2004 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
- Fourth
National Survey of Religion and Politics
- Data and analysis on how members of various religions voted for
President and why
- 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
- However, 2006 polls are devoted to health and not politics
- Full text since 1996
- Most in pdf format
- 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
- 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
- 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
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POLICY ISSUES
Top Issues Identified by Pollsters
Iraq
Terrorism
Economy
Energy
Immigration
Health Care
Education
Social Security
Politicians
Federal Deficit
Abortion
Same Sex Marriage
Stem Cell Research
Public Access Sources
- 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
- America Votes 2006 (CNN)
- Summarizes five issues: Iraq, terrorism, moral concerns, immigration and the economy
- Includes public opinion polls on the importance of the issue in voting
- 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
- Gallup's Top 10
- Summary of the top ten issues the American public is concerned about as determined by the Gallup public opinion polls
- On the
Issues
- Extensive web site analyzing positions of incumbents and challengers for the gubernatorial and senatorial races, as well as current 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
- 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 Michigan Ballot
Issues, Lobby Group
Ratings
Academic Sources
- 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
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- 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
- Tables on abortion by age, race, state, and
length of gestation
- Child Custody Act (THOMAS)
- S. 403 passed Senate by roll call vote on July 25, 2006
- Prohibits taking child across state lines to avoid parental notification on abortion
- 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
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- 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 2007
- 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, Spring 2005 (NGA)
- Status of state budgets and budget cutting measures
- Income and Poverty (Census Bureau)
- Historical and current data on personal income and poverty by characteristics
- Data through 2005
- 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
Job
Outsourcing
Employment
- 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
Salaries
- Real
Earnings (BLS)
- Archived press releases since 1994 showing a change in real earnings
(salary v. inflation)
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- Education Commission of the States
- Database comparing state plans for implementing No Child Left Behind
- 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
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- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling
- H.R.
5429 passed House but not
considered in Senate
- Energy Information Administration
- Access current and historic data on various energy sources, including production,
consumption, prices, and foreign trade
- Also has weekly retail gasoline prices
- 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
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- 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
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- Budget and Economic Outlook: August 2006
- Congressional Budget Office projections of revenues and expenditures through 2016
- National Debt
- 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
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- 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 Amendment (2006)
- S.J.Res. 1 banning gay marriage defeated by Senate on June 7, 2006
- H.J. Res 88 - amendment to ban gay marriage defeated by House on July 18, 2006
- 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
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- Medicare
- Medicare
Trustees Report
- Report shows when funds are likely to dissipate
- 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
- Updated Reports on the Uninsured
- 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
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- National
Commission on the Terrorist Attacks
- 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
- ANSER Institute for
Homeland Security
- Current legislative update
- Virtual library of materials, including Presidential Decision
Directives, Executive Orders, research material on weapons of mass
destruction
- Excerpts of current news reports
- From
MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) to MUD (Multilateral Unconstrained
Disruption): Dealing with the New Terrorism
- Recommends that the United States refocus its war on terrorism from
protecting people and equipment assets to protecting its political and
economic foundations
- Article by Stephen Gale and Lawrence Husick
- Appeared in Foreign Policy Research Institute's America at
War series on Feb. 11, 2003
- National
Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism (Joint Chiefs of
Staff)
- Defines extremists as people unwilliing to let others live in
freedom and are willing to kill
- Methods for defeating terrorism include: denying terrorists what
they need to operate in a networked environment, shutting down
safe harbors, enabling other nations
to counter terrorism, and providing humanitarian assistance
- Declassified version of report released by the Joint Chiefs of Staff
on February 1, 2006
- National
Strategy for Combating Terrorism (2006)
- Four points: prevent attacks, deny WMD to rogue states, deny
terrorists support from rogue states, and deny terrorists the control of
any nation
- Claims al-Qaeda is weakened but the threat is real
- Another Copy
- Released September 5, 2006
- National
Strategy for Homeland Security
- President Bush's strategy, released in July 2002
- Covers improvements to intelligence, border security, domestic
terrorism, protecting critical infrastructures, defending against
catastrophes, and emergency response
- Recommends "red teams" to pretend their are terrorists and scout
vulnerabilities
- Claims al-Qaeda is weakened but the threat is real
- Another Copy
- Released September 5, 2006
- Progress Report on the
Global War on Terrorism (White House)
- Federal efforts to disable known terrorists and dismantle financing
- Progress on homeland security and emergency response
- Released September 10, 2003
- Report to
Congress on Combating Terrorism (OMB)
- Annual report on overseas and domestic programs to counteract
terrorism
- Budgetary analysis and future needs
- 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
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- See complete Documents Center coverage in Iraq War
Debate
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Declassified
Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate, Trends in Global
Terrorism, Implications for the United States, April
2006
- Released by President Bush on September 26, 2006 after parts leaked
to the press
- Suggests Iraq has become a recruiting ground for terrorists and
they have adapted their efforts
- Lists causes for the increased violence
- Jihadists will lose some recruits if fail in Iraq
- 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)
- 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
- Postwar
Findings about Iraq's WMD Program and Links to Terrorism and How They
Compare with PreWar Assessments
- Report evaluates CIA prewar assessments of Iraq's WMD capability and
its links to terrorism
- Released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 8, 2006
- Report on
the
U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments of
Iraq
- Report faults CIA for group think in assuming Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction
- Released July 2004
- Full report is 521 pages in pdf format
- Conclusions
is a 30 page summary
- 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
- Use
by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi
National Congress
- Explores role of Ahmed Chalabi and inaccurate information supplied
by anti-Saddam forces
- Released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 8, 2006
- Woodward Book: State of Denial
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- Geneva Convention on
Prisoners of War (August 12, 1949)
- CQ Weekly Report (UMich Only)
- Articles describing the difference between the President's and Senate's proposal appear in CQ Weekly, Sept. 15, 2006, p. 2458-2459
- Military Commissions Act of 2006
- H.R.
6054 introduced by Duncan Hunter on Sept. 12, 2006
- H.R.
6166 passed House via a roll call vote on September 27,
2006
- S. 3901
introduced by John Warner on September 14, 2006
- S.
3930 passed Senate on September 28, 2006
- Abu Ghraib
- Guantanamo Bay
- Situation
of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay
- Calls for the release or trial of all detainees and closure of
the Guantanamo Bay Facility
- Report issued by the UN Commission on Human Rights on February 15,
2006 as E/CN.4/2006/120
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- 109th Congress
- No action taken despite House passage of H.R.
3304
- S.1302,
the companion bill, was barely introduced
- George W. Bush
- 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
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- 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
- Stem Cell Research: 2006
- Text of H.R. 810, passed by House in 2005 and Senate in 2006 to permit research on existing and new stem cells
- Includes links to roll call votes
- President's veto on July 19, 2006 was not overridden
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ELECTION RESULTS AND VOTING
- 2006 Election
Results (CNN)
- National results by office (Senate, House, Governor)
- Selected ballot measures by state
- 2006 Balance of Power
Spreadsheets
- Separate spreadsheets for House, Senate, and Governor
- Names of 2006 incumbent and 2007 winner
- Color coded for visual identification and organized for sorting and
filering
- Michigan Results by County (Detroit News)
- Michigan
Secretary of State General Election Results
- Statewide election results by county
- Congressional and State Legislative results by legislative
district
- State Election Results
- Not all states had posted results on November 10,
2006
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Elections, 2005+ |
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Elections, 1996+ |
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CA
Elections, 1992+ |
CO
Elections, 1996+ |
CN
Elections (current) |
DE
Elections (current only) |
DC Elections
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Elections, 1978+ |
GA
Elections, 1988+ |
HI
Elections, 2004+ |
IA
Elections, 1996+ |
ID Elections,
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Elections, 1998+ |
NM
Elections, 2004+ |
NV
Elections, 1998+ |
NY
Elections, 2000+ |
OH
Elections, 1940+ |
OK
Elections, 1996+ |
OR
Elections, 1995+ |
PA
Elections, 2000+ |
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Elections, 2000+ |
RI Elections,
1998+ |
SC Elections,
1996+ |
SD
Elections, 1988+ |
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Elections, 1988+ |
TX Elections,
1992+ |
UT
Elections, 1982+ |
VT
Elections, 1996+ |
VA
Elections, 1997+ |
WA
Elections, 2004+ |
WI
Elections, 2000+ |
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Elections, 1998+ |
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National
Comprehensive
President
- 2004
Election Results (CNN)
- 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
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 that makes Presidential election results by district
available on the web, 1992-2004; see the bottom of each state page
- Results from previous elections also 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
Congressional
- 2004
Election Results (CNN)
- 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
- Governors'
Races (CNN)
- Votes and percentages for the 11 gubernatorial races
- Includes votes by county
All
States
- Secretary
of State Offices (Political Resources)
- Links to state Secretary of State offices
- Individual web sites often have campaign information
and election
results
- State
Vote (National Conference of State Legislatures)
- Changes in party control of state legislatures since 1994
Michigan
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- 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
- Additional
laws cover early voting, paper trails, absentee ballots,
and voting systems
- Compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures
- 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
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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)
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- 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)
- 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 Election Results
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Elections, 1996+ |
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Elections, 1996+ |
CN
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DE
Elections (current only) |
DC Elections
1994+ |
FL
Elections, 1978+ |
GA
Elections, 1988+ |
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Elections, 2004+ |
IA
Elections, 1996+ |
ID Elections,
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Elections, 1998+ |
IN
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Elections, 1986+ |
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2002+ |
MD
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Elections, 2000+ |
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Elections, 1992+ |
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NC
Elections, 1996+ |
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Elections, 2000+ |
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NM
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1998+ |
SC Elections,
1996+ |
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1992+ |
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Elections, 2004+ |
WI
Elections, 2000+ |
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Elections, 1998+ |
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1996+ |
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- 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
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ACADEMIC RESEARCH
- 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
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- 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
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Illustration | MIRLYN | Proquest | JSTOR | LEXIS
Academic | IPSA | Worldwide
PoliSci Abstracts
PAIS
| Google |
PHRASE |
"campaign finance" |
"campaign finance" |
"campaign finance" |
campaign finance |
campaign finance |
campaign finance |
"campaign finance" |
AND |
"campaign finance" and reform |
"campaign finance" and reform |
"campaign 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 |
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 finance" and (PAC or "political 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 |
democra? |
democra? |
democra? |
democra! |
democra* |
democra* |
not applicable |
Boolean Protocols of Political Science Data Bases
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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
- Public
Affairs Information Service Bulletin (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
- You can jump from this page to the historical index, 1915-71
- There are also paper versions (English, 1915+, Z 7163 .P98 and
foreign, 1968+, Z 7164 .E2 P96)
- ProQuest
(UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Issues since 1989 appear in LEXIS-NEXIS Universe (UMich Only)
- Use Guided News Search/U.S. News/Southeast Regional Sources
- USA Today
- Daily articles on news, sports, weather and finances
- Archival file of the top news stories
- Issues since 1989 appear in LEXIS-NEXIS Universe (UMich Only)
- Use Guided News Search/General News/Major Papers
- 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
- Issues since 1977 appear in LEXIS-NEXIS Universe (UMich Only)
- Use Guided News Search/U.S. News/Southeast Regional Sources
- World News
Connection (UMich Library Only)
[http://wnc.dialog.com/]
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- 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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University of Michigan Library
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