Environmental Policy, Politics & Organizations
EAS 562 · Professor Steven L. Yaffee
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Campaigns
Background
Resources on Candidates
- League of
Conservation Voters: How have elected officials voted on environmental
issues in the past? LCV scores & more on elected officials.
- Project
Vote Smart: A site with a lot of information: biographical data,
campaign finances, issue positions, voting records, interest group
ratings, legislation status, issues links, and more!
- Politics1.com State Pages: By state, links to
information about State and Congressional Candidates (including their own
websites), state parties, and local news sources.
- ProQuest Congressional: (UMich
only, requires library password) State profiles and biographical
information. Database of local and regional newspapers is also an
excellent resource for local coverage of races.
Campaign
Financing
- opensecrets.org:Where
are candidates getting their money? Contribution reports broken down by
geographic area, and interest groups; personal financial disclosures, and
more. Sponsored by the Center for Responsive Politics.
- Federal
Election Commission's Campaign Finance Reports and Data: Campaign
contributions for Presidential, Senate, and House candidates, and more.
- Political
Party Time: Tracks political fundraising events, providing information
on who's fundraising and where.
Campaign
News
- Roll
Call Online: Capitol Hill's newspaper. Includes election analyses and
odds on the outcomes.
- Washington Post On Politics: News on campaigns, polls,
and other political news, from the Post.
- New
York Times political coverage: Note that the New York Times charges
for access after a limited number of articles per month.
- The Polling Report : Curious about what Americans are thinking? Poll results compiled from multiple news organizations. For politics, primarily focused on Presidential race.
- Public
Policy Polling: Polling firm based in North Carolina that provides
polling data on political races throughout the country.
- Real Clear
Politics: Website that aggregates polling data and political and
electoral news.
- The Gallup Organization: Gallup Poll results related
to Politics & Elections, including trends on Presidential approval,
favorability ratings of key political personalities, ratings of Congress,
and special interest groups.
- Five
Thirty Eight: This website, named after the number of electors in the
electoral college, provides polling info, the return on campaign funds by
state, and the electoral history of states.
- The Cook Political
Report: This resource was founded in 1984 as an independent,
non-partisan newsletter that analyzes US elections and campaigns as well
as political trends.
- The
Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report: Election result and
leaning projections