Campaigns & Elections Bookmarks
Updated: October 26, 2002Research Data Sources
Ranked for Usefulness in Campaign Research Assignment
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2000 Census: American Fact Finder: detailed census data - 2000 Census:
County & City Data Book
Center for Responsive Politics (opensecrets.org): show me the money
FECInfo: user friendly Federal Election Commission data - Lexis-Nexis
Congress Members
Politics 1: candidate sites
Project Vote Smart: show me the facts
Project Vote Smart: Congress Track
Project Vote Smart: Public Statements Search
USA Counties - Election Data On Line by State
| Alabama | Hawaii | Massachusetts* | New Mexico | South Dakota |
| Alaska | Idaho | Michigan | New York | Tennessee |
| Arizona | Illinois | Minnesota | North Carolina | Texas |
| Arkansas | Indiana | Mississippi | North Dakota | Utah |
| California | Iowa | Missouri | Ohio | Vermont |
| Colorado | Kansas | Montana | Oklahoma | Virginia |
| Connecticut | Kentucky | Nebraska | Oregon | Washington |
| Deleware | Louisiana | Nevada | Pennsylvania | West Virginia |
| Florida | Maine | New Hampshire | Rhode Island | Wisconsin |
| Georgia* | Maryland | New Jersey | South Carolina | Wyoming |
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*let me know if you find any--Craig
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Cornell College Department of Politics: Research Links
Elections U.S.A.
Federal Election Commission
Secretary of State Web Sites -
BLS Home Page: Government Economic Data
C-SPAN: current & archival video coverage of poltics
E-the-People: petitions & news
CNN/Time
Inside Politics: news
League of Conservation Voters: How
members of Congress vote on the environment.
National
Election Studies: University of Michigan
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Political
Resources On-Line: Where Campaigns Go to Shop
Social
Sciences WWW Virtual Library
Vanishing Voter:
Harvard's Kennedy School
- Campaigns & Elections Magazine: the journal of campaign professionals
Parties
Communist
Constitution
Democrat
Democratic Socialist
Green
Libertarian
Natural Law
Reform
Republican
Socialist
Socialist Labor
Fun Stuff
Iowa Political Marketplace: legal betting on election outcomes
Skeleton Closet: the dirt on all the candidates
Political Graveyard: dead politicians