Elections 2006
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
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
- 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
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
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
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
- 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.
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)
- 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
- 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)
 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
- 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
Political Parties
Platforms
- Platforms
- Historic
Party Platforms (American Presidency Project)
- Full text of national party platforms, including major third parties, 1840-2000
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
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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
| AL
Elections, 2005+ |
AK
Elections, 1996+ |
AR Elections
(current) |
AZ
Elections, 1974+ |
CA
Elections, 1992+ |
| CO
Elections, 1996+ |
CN
Elections (current) |
DE
Elections (current only) |
DC Elections
1994+ |
FL
Elections, 1978+ |
| GA
Elections, 1988+ |
HI
Elections, 2004+ |
IA
Elections, 1996+ |
ID Elections,
1990+ |
IL
Elections, 1998+ |
| IN
Elections, 1997+ |
KS
Elections, 1988+ |
KY
Elections, 1973+ |
LA
Elections, 1986+ |
MA Elections
2002+ |
| MD
Elections, 1986+ |
ME Elections,
1992+ |
MI
Elections, 1998+ |
MN
Elections, 1998+ |
MO
Elections, 2002+ |
| MS
Elections, 2000+ |
MT
Elections, 1992+ |
NE Elections,
2000+ |
NC
Elections, 1996+ |
ND
Elections, 2000+ |
| NH Elections
(current) |
NJ
Elections, 1998+ |
NM
Elections, 2004+ |
NV
Elections, 1998+ |
NY
Elections, 2000+ |
| OH
Elections, 1940+ |
OK
Elections, 1996+ |
OR
Elections, 1995+ |
PA
Elections, 2000+ |
PR
Elections, 2000+ |
| RI Elections,
1998+ |
SC Elections,
1996+ |
SD
Elections, 1988+ |
TN
Elections, 1988+ |
TX Elections,
1992+ |
| UT
Elections, 1982+ |
VT
Elections, 1996+ |
VA
Elections, 1997+ |
WA
Elections, 2004+ |
WI
Elections, 2000+ |
| WV
Elections, 1998+ |
WY Elections,
1996+ |
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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
- 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
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
- 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
| AL
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AK
Elections, 1996+ |
AR Elections
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AZ
Elections, 1974+ |
CA
Elections, 1992+ |
| CO
Elections, 1996+ |
CN
Elections (current) |
DE
Elections (current only) |
DC Elections
1994+ |
FL
Elections, 1978+ |
| GA
Elections, 1988+ |
HI
Elections, 2004+ |
IA
Elections, 1996+ |
ID Elections,
1990+ |
IL
Elections, 1998+ |
| IN
Elections, 1997+ |
KS
Elections, 1988+ |
KY
Elections, 1973+ |
LA
Elections, 1986+ |
MA Elections
2002+ |
| MD
Elections, 1986+ |
ME Elections,
1992+ |
MI
Elections, 1998+ |
MN
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MO
Elections, 2002+ |
| MS
Elections, 2000+ |
MT
Elections, 1992+ |
NE Elections,
2000+ |
NC
Elections, 1996+ |
ND
Elections, 2000+ |
| NH Elections
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NJ
Elections, 1998+ |
NM
Elections, 2004+ |
NV
Elections, 1998+ |
NY
Elections, 2000+ |
| OH
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Elections, 1996+ |
OR
Elections, 1995+ |
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Elections, 2000+ |
PR
Elections, 2000+ |
| RI Elections,
1998+ |
SC Elections,
1996+ |
SD
Elections, 1988+ |
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Elections, 1988+ |
TX Elections,
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| UT
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VT
Elections, 1996+ |
VA
Elections, 1997+ |
WA
Elections, 2004+ |
WI
Elections, 2000+ |
| WV
Elections, 1998+ |
WY Elections,
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
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
| |
- 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)
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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 |
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"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 |
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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)
- 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
- 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/]
- 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
Grace York, Political Science Librarian
University of Michigan Library
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