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| State | Biden Withdrew |
Clinton | Dodd Withdrew |
Edwards Withdrew |
Gravel Became Libertarian |
Kucinich Withdrew |
OBAMA Presumptive Nominee |
Richardson Withdrew |
| IA 1-3-08 | 01% | 29% |  | 30% | | | 38% | 02% |
| NH 1-8-08 | NR | 39% | NR | 17% | | 01% | 37% | 05% |
| MI 1-15-08 | NR | 55% | 01% NR | NR | 0% | 04% | NR | NR |
| UNCOMMITTED=40%; generally thought to be votes for Edwards and Obama. Democratic Party decided on 5-31-08 to seat Michigan's full delegation but award 1/2 vote apiece due to early primary with 54% for Clinton and 46% for Obama | ||||||||
| NV 1-19-08 | | 51% | | 04% | |
| 45% | |
| SC 1-26-08 | | 27% | | 18% | |
| 55% | |
| FL 1-29-08 | | 50% | | 14% | | 01% | 33% | |
| Democratic Party Rules Committee decided to seat full Florida delegation with 1/2 vote apiece due to early primary. | ||||||||
| AL 2-5-08 | |
42% | | 01% | | | 56% | |
| AK 2-5-08 | | 25% | | | | | 74% | |
| AZ 2-5-08 | | 51% | | 05% | | | 42% | |
| AR 2-5-08 | | 69% | | 02% | | | 27% | |
| CA 2-5-08 | | 52% |
| 04% |
|
| 42% |
|
| CO 2-5-08 | | 32% |
|
|
|
| 67% |
|
| CN 2-5-08 | | 47% |
| 01% |
|
| 51% |
|
| DE 2-5-08 | 03% | 42% |
| 01% |
|
| 51% |
|
| GA 2-5-08 | | 31% |
| 02% |
|
| 66% |
|
| ID 2-5-08 | | 17% |
| 01% |
|
| 80% |
|
| IL 2-5-08 | | 33% |
| 02% |
|
| 64% |
|
| KS 2-5-08 | | 26% |
|
|
|
| 74% |
|
| MA 2-5-08 | | 56% |
| 02% |
|
| 41% |
|
| MN 2-5-08 | | 32% |
|
|
|
| 67% |
|
| MO 2-5-08 | | 48% |
| 02% |
|
| 49% |
|
| NJ 2-5-08 | | 54% |
| 01% |
|
| 44% |
|
| NM 2-5-08 | | 49% |
| 02% |
|
| 48% | 01% |
| NY 2-5-08 | | 57% |
| 01% |
|
| 40% |
|
| ND 2-5-08 | | 37% |
| 01% |
|
| 67% |
|
| OK 2-5-08 | | 55% |
| 10% |
|
| 31% |
|
| TN 2-5-08 | | 54% |
| 04% |
|
| 41% |
|
| UT 2-5-08 | | 39% |
| 03% |
|
| 57% |
|
| LA 2-9-08 | | 36% | | | | | 57% | |
| NE 2-9-08 | | 32% | | | | | 68% | |
| WA Caucus 2-09-08 | | 31% | | | | | 68% | |
| ME 2-10-08 | | 40% | | | | | 59% | |
| DC 2-12-08 | | 24% | | | | | 75% | |
| MD 2-12-08 | | 36% | | | | | 60% | |
| VA 2-12-08 | | 35% | | | | | 64% | |
| HI 2-19-08 | | 24% | | | | | 76% | |
| WA Primary 2-19-08 | | 47% | | | | | 50% | |
| WI 2-19-08 | | 41% | | | | | 58% | |
| OH 3-4-08 | | 54% | | | | | 44% | |
| RI 3-4-08 | | 58% | | | | | 40% | |
| TX Primary 3-4-08 | | 51% | | | | | 47% | |
| TX Caucus 3-4-08 | | 44% | | | | | 56% | |
| VT 3-4-08 | | 39% |
|
|
|
| 59% | |
| WY 3-8-08 |
|
38% | | | | | 61% | |
| MS 3-11-08 | | 37% | | | | | 61% | |
| PA 4-22-08 | | 55% | | | | | 45% | |
| GU 5-3-08 |
| 50% | | | | | 50% [won by 7 votes] | |
| IN 5-6-08 |
|
51% | |
| | | 49% | |
| NC 5-6-08 | | 42% | |
| | | 56% | |
| WV 5-13-08 | |
67% | | | | | 26% | |
| KY 5-20-08 | | 65% | | | | | 30% | |
| OR 5-20-08 | | 42% | | | | | 58% | |
| PR 6-1-08 | | 68% | | | | | 32% | |
| MT 6-3-08 |
|
41% | | | | | 56% | |
| SD 6-3-08 | |
55% | | | | | 45% | |
| State | Giuliani Withdrew |
Huckabee Withdrew |
Hunter Withdrew |
Keyes | MCCAIN Presumptive Nominee |
Paul | Romney Withdrew |
Thompson Withdrew | |
| IA 1-3-08 | 03% | 34% | |
NR | 13% | 10% | 25% | 13% | |
| WY 1-5-08 | | | | 09% | | | 73% | 18% | |
| Republican Party to seat one half of delegates due to violation of primary scheduling rules | |||||||||
| NH 1-8-08 | 09% | 11% | | | 37% | 08% | 32% | 01% | |
| Republican Party to seat one half of delegates due to violation of primary scheduling rules | |||||||||
| MI 1-15-08 | 03% | 16% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 06% | 39% | 04% | |
| UNCOMMITTED=2%. Republican Party to seat one half of delegates due to violation of primary scheduling rules | |||||||||
| NV 1-19-08 | 04% | 08% | 02% | |
13% | 13% | 51% | 08% | |
| SC 1-19-08 | 02% | 30% | | |
33% | 04% | 15% | 16% | |
| Republican Party to seat one half of delegates due to violation of primary scheduling rules | |||||||||
| FL 1-29-08 | 15% | 13% | | | 36% | 03% | 31% | 01% | |
| Republican Party to seat one half of delegates due to violation of primary scheduling rules | |||||||||
| ME 2-1-08 | | 06% | |
| 21% | 19% | 52% | | |
| AL 2-5-08 | |
41% | | | 37% | 03% | 18% | | |
| AK 2-5-08 | |
22% | |
|
16% | 17% | 44% | | |
| AZ 2-5-08 | 03% | 09% | |
| 47% | 04% | 34% | | |
| AR 2-5-08 | |
60% | |
|
20% | 05% | 13% | | |
| CA 2-5-08 | 05% | 12% |
|
|
42% | 04% | 34% |
| |
| CO 2-5-08 | |
13% |
|
|
19% | 08% | 59% |
| |
| CN 2-5-08 | 02% | 07% |
|
|
52% | 04% | 33% |
| |
| DE 2-5-08 | 02% | 15% |
|
|
45% | 04% | 33% |
| |
| GA 2-5-08 | 01% | 34% |
|
|
32% | 03% | 30% |
| |
| IL 2-5-08 | 01% | 16% |
|
|
47% | 05% | 29% |
| |
| KS 2-5-08 | |
60% |
|
|
24% | 11% | 03% |
| |
| MA 2-5-08 | 01% | 04% |
|
| 41% | 03% | 51% |
| |
| MN 2-5-08 | |
20%% |
|
| 22% | 16% | 41% |
| |
| MO 2-5-08 | 01% | 32% |
|
| 33% | 04% | 29% |
| |
| NJ 2-5-08 | 03% | 08% |
|
| 55% | 05% | 28% |
| |
| NY 2-5-08 | 03% | 11% |
|
|
51% | 06% | 28% |
| |
| ND 2-5-08 | |
20% |
|
|
23% | 21% | 36% |
| |
| OK 2-5-08 | 01% | 33% |
|
| 37% | 03% | 25% |
| |
| TN 2-5-08 | 01% | 34% |
|
| 32% | 06% | 24% | 03% | |
| UT 2-5-08 | | 01% |
|
| 05% | 03% | 90% |
| |
| KS 2-9-08 | | 60% | |
| 24% | 11% | 03% | | |
| LA 2-9-08 | | 43% |
|
| 42% | 05% | 06% |
| |
| WA Caucus 2-09-08 | | 24% |
|
| 26% | 22% | 15% |
| |
| ME 2-10-08 | | 06% |
|
| 21% | 19% | 52% |
| |
| DC 2-12-08 | | 17% |
|
| 68% | 08% | 06% |
| |
| MD 2-12-08 | | 29% |
|
| 55% | 06% | 06% |
| |
| VA 2-12-08 | | 41% |
|
| 50% | 05% | 04% |
| |
| WA Primary 2-19-08 | | 22% | | | 49% | 07% | 20% | | |
| WI 2-19-08 | | 37% |
|
| 55% | 05% | 02% |
| |
| OH 3-4-08 | | 31% |
|
| 60% | 05% |
|
| |
| RI 3-4-08 | | 22% |
|
| 65% | 07% |
|
| |
| TX 3-4-08 | |
38% | |
| 51% | 05% |
|
| |
| VT 3-4-08 | | 14% | | | 72% | 07% | | | |
| MS 3-11-08 | | 12% |
|
| 79% | 04% |
|
| |
| PA 4-22-08 | | 11% |
|
| 73% | 16% |
|
| |
| IN 5-6-08 | | 10% |
|
| 78% | 08% | 05% |
| |
| NC 5-6-08 | | 12% |
| 03% | 74% | 08% |
|
| |
| NE 5-13-08 | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| WV 5-13-08 | 02% | 10% |
| 01% | 76% | 05% | 04% |
| |
| HI 5-18-08 Convention | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| KY 5-20-08 | 02% | 08% |
| 01% | 72% | 07% | 05% |
| |
| OR 5-20-08 | |
|
|
| 85% | 15% |
|
| |
| ID 5-27-08 | | |
|
|
70% | 24% |
|
| |
| MT 6-3-08 | |
|
|
| 76% | 22% |
|
| |
| NM 6-3-08 | | | |
| 86% | 14% |
|
| |
| SD 6-3-08 | | 07% |
|
| 70% | 17% | 03% |
| |
January 15, 2008
|
The National Democratic Party does not plan to seat
the
Michigan delegation at its convention because it is holding its primary
before February 5. Voting choices are Clinton, Kucinich and Gravel.
Edwards, Obama, and Richardson supporters are urged to vote for
Uncommitted. Uncommitted electors can vote for any one of six
candidates.
Write-ins will not be counted. The Republican Party may only allow 50% of Michigan's delegation to be seated at its convention for the same reason. All candidates are on the ballot. Voting choices include Uncommitted. Uncommitted electors can vote for any candidate. Write-ins will not be counted. See byline by Todd Spangler in Dec. 1, 2007 issue of the Detroit Free Press |
- Public
Act 52 or 2007
- Establishes a presidential primary on January 15, 2008
- Text of bill, legislative analyses, and roll call vote
- Mark L. Grebner v. State of Michigan
- The Michigan Appeals Court ruled the January 15, 2008 presidential
unconstitutional
- Public Act 52, which allowed political parties to access the names of their voters, is a private law and was not passed by a 2/3 majority
- Majority Opinion
- Minority Opinion
- Michigan Supreme Court ruled the primary legal on November 21, 2007
As of November 21, 2007, Michigan Supreme Court rules January 15, 2008 primary legal. Candidate list for January 15, 2008 primary is different than February 26, 2008 primary, which had originally been scheduled.
- The Michigan Appeals Court ruled the January 15, 2008 presidential
unconstitutional
- Michigan
Presidential Primary Facts and Figures (Secy of State)
- Legislation and history of the presidential primary
- Includes statistics through 2000, including the winners, voter turnout and campaign expenditures
- Michigan
Democratic Party
- List of Presidential candidates
- Presidential
Caucus and delegate selection information
- The caucus was originally scheduled for February 9, 2008 but is superseded by a state primary on January 15, 2008
- Delegate Selection Plan as revised on November 27, 2007 - NOT IN INTERNET ARCHIVE
- Primary
is Sizing Up to Be a Big Draw
- Detroit Free Press articles of Dec. 26, 2007
- Poll taken by Free Press and Local 4 shows 57% of voters plan to vote in January 15th primary, the largest number since 1972
- However, some people don't know the Democratic ballot will be limited
- Proposals for Change
- Two
Opponents Team Up for Better Primary
- Detroit Free Press editorial by Steve Henderson dated December 9, 2007
- Discusses a joint Democrat/Republican proposal to divide states into regions and hold inter-regional primaries based on a lottery
- H.R.
1523
- Calls for interregional lottery for presidential primary
- Introduced by Sander Levin into U.S. Congress on March 14, 2007
- Companion bill is S. 2024, introduced by Senator Bill Nelson on September 6, 2007
- Two
Opponents Team Up for Better Primary
Michigan Candidates and Ballot Proposals
Presidential Primary was Jan. 15, 2008 as a result of the Supreme Court's decision on Grebner v. Michigan
- Congressional Candidates (Politics
1)
- List of Michigan Congressional candidates by district and their web sites
- Includes all parties running
- Publius
- Michigan residents can search for their names and then get a sample ballot to mark prior to a trip to the voting booth
- Michigan
Elections (Michigan Department of State)
- Timeline of activity prior to the January 15, 2008 presidential primary (may be suspended as late as November 14, 2007)
- 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
- New Law on Picture Identification at the Polls
- Non-Partisan Voting
Guide
for Michigan (League of Women Voters)
- Candidates answer questions for all state level races on Nov. 4, 2008
- Includes candidates for governor, the federal and state legislatures, state courts, university governing boards
- Submissions by lobby groups on the ballot proposals
- Publius Voter Information Center
- Allows individuals to verify their voter registration status
- Will eventually allow voters to view their local ballot prior to the primaries and general election
- Stateline
- State political news
- Blogs on state issues arranged by subject and state
- Washtenaw
County Clerk
- Ballot proposals and candidates throughout all county jurisdictions
- Primary results
- Campaign finances
- Voter registration information
Michigan Political Parties - Michigan
Democratic Party
- List of Presidential candidates
- Presidential
Caucus and delegate selection information
- The caucus was originally scheduled for February 9, 2008 but is superseded by a state primary on January 15, 2008
- Delegate Selection Plan as revised on November 27, 2007 - Not available through the Internet Archive
- Michigan Green
Party
- Web site has campaign calendar
- Michigan Libertarian Party
- List of current office holders and former candidates
- Michigan Republican Party
- Instructions on how to become a precinct delegate
- Michigan Ballot
Proposals (Secretary of State)
- Text of the two 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 two ballot proposals, with a summary, analysis, and actual ballot language
- CQ Politics
- Section on House, Senate and Gubernatorial races to watch in 2008
- Describes the political situation in each of the covered districts, including the 7th and 9th of Michigan
- Gongwer (Documents Center Password Only)
- Rich source of election news and information on state government not found elsewhere
- Stateline
- State political news
- Blogs on state issues arranged by subject and state
State Candidates
- Governors' Terms
of Office (National Governors Association)
- Lists governors by state
- Indicates when term ends; 1/09 indicates an election due
- National Association
of State Election Directors
- Web sites of state and territorial election offices
- Names and contact information for their administrators
- These web sites should provide campaign and election information
- Politics1
- Lists Congressional and gubernatorial candidates by state
- Links to their web sites when available
- State
Primaries
(Foreign Assistance Voters Guide)
- List of state-level primaries by state and date
- Includes candidates for governor and Congress
- Stateline
- State political news
- Blogs on state issues arranged by subject and state
- Initiative and Referendum Institute
- Ballot Watch newsletter lists the state ballot initiatives in the current election
- Statistics on the historical use of the initiative process
- Rhodes
Cook Letter (UMich Only)
- Journal with election data and charts on Presidential, Congressional and gubernatorial races
- Includes public opinion polls, delegate counts, and state initiatives on various issues (e.g. gay marriage ban)
- 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
- Especially good for political news within the states
- Political services and buyer's guide
- Some sections require password
- Full text of periodical available to University of Michigan affiliates through Proquest
- CQ Politics
- Section on House, Senate and Gubernatorial races to watch in 2008
- Describes the political situation in each of the covered districts
- Mayoral Elections Data Base (US Conference of Mayors)
- Data base includes election results since 1999
- Expected to include information on 2008 elections
Advertising
- Livingroom
Candidate
- Major presidential campaign ads, 1952-2008
- Uses Windows Media Player or RealPlayer
- National
Journal Ad Spotlight (UMich Only)
- Campaign ads using Real Player since 1998, including the 2008 election
- Presidential, gubernatorial, and Congressional races
- RealPlayer is available at campus computing sites and can access all of the ads in this series
- Paris
Hilton Ad
- Presidential campaign ad for Paris Hilton
- Humorous text in response to McCain ad comparing Obama to the Hilton/Spears celebrity status
- Political
Communication Laboratory (Stanford)
- Videos of campaign ads for the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Presidential election
- Ads for the California governorship in 1994, 2002 and 2006
- You Tube You
Choose
- Presidential candidate campaign ads on You Tube and user-contributed takes
- Questions of the candidates asked by individual citizens
Campaign Finances
- Campaign
Money
- Searchable data base of campaign contributions for Presidential and Congressional candidates beginning in 2000
- Access by candidate, political action committee, or 527 organization
- Information is cross-listed in several ways
- Includes 2008 candidates
- Center for Responsive
Politics
- Non-partisan research group monitoring campaign finances
- Summary reports on Presidential and Congressional campaigns by contributor, industry and zip code
- Data base also searchable by donor
- Federal Election
Commission
- Summary receipts and disbursements of Presidential and all Congressional candidates
- Search by candidate and year; then drill down to detail on individual contributors
- Follow
the Money
- Candidates for state office and their campaign contributors
- Contributors by industry or special interest for a state
- No information for 2008 as of 1-25-08
- Follow the
Oil Money
- Amount of money presidential candidates received from individual oil companies
- Top House and Senate recipients of oil money and how they voted in relationship to oil issues
- Fundrace
2008
- Search by street address to determine the people in your zip code giving more than $200 to a presidential candidate
- May also search by name of an individual
- LEXIS Congressional (UMich Only)
- Under the Members section
- Search by Member of Congress to determine individual campaign or PAC contributors since 1987 and financial disclosures since 1991
- Separate section on campaign finance reports
- Similar to data found on the Federal Election Commission web site but easier to use
- MapLight Campaign
Money
- Create your own charts of Presidential and Congressional campaign fundraising for insertation into a web page
- New York Times Election Guide
- Search by zip code for Presidential campaign donors providing over $200
- Project Vote Smart
- Biographies, lobby group ratings, campaign receipts by Political Action Committee subject groupings
- Candidate answers to the National Political Awareness Test, a questionnaire on issues in the election
- Congress, Governors, President, and State Legislatures
- Public v. Private Funding
- May
Fundraising: Good for McCain, Not So Good for Obama (CQ
Politics)
- Believes Obama dropped out of public funding because he can raise more in small contributions
- Republican National Committee has more funds than Democratic National Committee
- Campaign
Finance Reform (Umich Only)
- CQ Researcher analysis dated June 13, 2008
- Overview, graphs, chronology, and pros and cons of campaign finance reform
- Links to similar articles dating back to 1924
- May
Fundraising: Good for McCain, Not So Good for Obama (CQ
Politics)
- Gubernatorial Campaign Finance Database (UNC)
- Campaign expenditures by state for gubernatorial races, beginning 1977
- Includes cost per vote
- Research project by Thad Beyle and Jennifer Jensen
Campaign Schedules
- Map the
Candidates (Slate)
- Mash up of Google maps showing where the Presidential candidates are campaigning on any given day and since December 2007
- New
York Times Election Guide
- Biographies and blogs of Presidential candidates as well as their stands on$
- Search by zip code for donors providing over $200
- Presidential candidate schedules
- Democratic and Republican primary schedules by date
Candidate
Resources
- 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
- 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
- Searchable list of over 3000 political products and services (e.g.
pollsters, posters)
Debates
- Pre-Convention Debates
- American Presidency
Project (UCSB)
- Transcripts of numerous Presidential primary debates (pre-convention) beginning 2000 and Presidential debates beginning 1960
- MSNBC Debates
- Videos of presidential debates beginning spring 2007 and transcripts beginning September 2007 for both parties
- YouTube Debates (CNN)
- American Presidency
Project (UCSB)
- Commission on Presidential
Debates
- Text of the 2008 post-convention debates when they occur
- Text of debates for 1858, 1948, 1956, 1960, and every four years since 1976
- C-Span
Debates
- Expect text of 2008 post-convention Presidential Debates as they occur
- Washington
Post Debate Transcripts
- None available as of 11/5/07 but expected after national conventions
Fact Checkers
- FactCheck (Univ of
Pennsylvania)
- Analyzes claims made by politicians in the news to determine their accuracy
- New entries several times per week
- PolitiFact
Truth-O-Meter
- Congressional Quarterly and St. Petersburg Times effort to analyze truth in candidate claims
- Approach by candidate, subject, or result (true, fales, somewhere inbetween), by party and where they said it
- Brief description of reason for the ruling
Gaming
- 270 to Win
- Interactive map of electoral college for 2008
- Begin by viewing the map as neutral, with 2004 results
- Toggle to change the colors and determine a strategy
- Atlas of U.S.
Presidential Elections (David Leip)
- Latest presidential preference by candidate and state, separately for Republicans and Democrats
- Overall projections of electoral votes by state
- Create your own presidential predictions and electoral college calculator
- Election Day
Simulation (University of Washington)
- Game to teach the electoral process; may take 10 minutes to 6 hours
- Players choose candidate and campaign staff
- React to circumstances, issues, crises and geography
- Election results can be analyzed at the end of the game
- Game must be downloaded from web site to a hard drive
- United States
Electoral College (NARA)
- Create your own electoral vote scenario
Humor
- Indecision 2008 (Comedy Central)
- Humorous videos and posters of the Presidential election from Stephen Colbert and John Stewart
- JibJab
- Singing video of John McCain and Barack Obama
Internet Use
- 51st
State
- Lists presidential candidates with detailed information about their blogs, calendars, fund-raising tools, store, hiring status, campaign news, RSS feeds and podcasts, facebook/flickr/myspace/youtube accounts
- Article appeared in the November 2007 edition of Information Today
- Tech
President
- Presidential candidate blogs and number of web hits
- Videos and Flickr pictures used in campaigning
- Facebook supporters
- Blog on using the web effectively in campaigns
- You Tube You
Choose
- Presidential candidate campaign ads on You Tube and user-contributed takes
- Questions of the candidates asked by individual citizens
Legal Issues
- Campaign Legal
Center
- News, transcripts and rulings on election campaign legal problems at the national and state level
- Includes campaign finance, media, ethics, and redistricting issues
Lobby
Group Web Sites
- AFL-CIO
- Air Traffic Control Association
- Alternative Press Center
- American Association for Affirmative Action
- American Assoc.for Retired Persons
- American Bar Association
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Medical Association
- American Public Health Association
- American Public Transit Association
- American Public Welfare Association
- Anti-Defamation League
- Association of American Universities
- Center for Individual Rights
- Christian Coalition
- Citizens Against Government Waste
- Common Cause
- Concord Coalition (deficit reduction)
- Constitution Society
- Corporate Watch
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Families USA
- Family Research Council
- Federation of American Scientists
- FCNL - Friends Committee on National Legislation
- Greenpeace International
- Institute for Puerto Rican Policy
- Labor Unions Directory (CWA)
- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- League of Conservation Voters
- League of Women Voters
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- National Center for Children in Poverty
- National Education Association
- National Coalition for the Homeless
- National Fish and Wildlife Federation
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- National Organization for Women
- National Priorities Project (Budget)
- National Rifle Association
- National Right to Life
- OMB Watch
- Open the Government
- People for the American Way
- Planned Parenthood
- Pro-Life Action League
- Public Citizen (Ralph Nader)
- Sierra Club
- Teamsters
- United Farm Workers
- USA Engage (against unilateral economic sanctions abroad)
- Veterans of Foreign Wars
- Vietnam Veterans of America
- Wilderness Society
Conservative Internet Sites
Issue-Oriented Groups
Liberal Internet
Sites
Lobby Group Ratings
- Almanac of American Politics (UMich Only)
- Arranged by state and Congressional District
- Detailed political profile of each district as well as demographic statistics
- Political profiles of individual Members of Congress with brief election data, lobby group ratings, key votes in Congress, and campaign finances
- Also in paper copy in Documents Center (JK 1012 .A44) with older issues in Graduate Library stacks
- CQ
Congress Collection (UMich Only)
- Member search provides detailed political biographies, brief election statistics, and lobby group ratings since the 97th Congress
- This is equivalent to material appearing in the printed Politics in America (JK 1010.P76-Ref.)
- 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
- Project
Vote Smart
- Votes by Members of Congress on major issues by subject with corresponding lobby group ratings
Maps
- Political
Maps
- National and state mapping of Presidential and Congressional campaigns from numerous sources
- 2008 maps include various predictions of the Presidential race as well as New York Times campaign finance maps and a few primary maps
- Archived maps back to 1980 include electoral votes, Presidential elections, Presidential fund-raising, and purple nation maps but not campaign maps
Media Coverage
- 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
- PolitiFact
Truth-O-Meter
- Congressional Quarterly and St. Petersburg Times effort to analyze truth in candidate claims
- Approach by candidate, subject, or result (true, fales, somewhere inbetween), by party and where they said it
- Brief description of reason for the ruling
- Press
Conference Calls (2008Central)
- Audio of the Presidential candidates' daily conference phone calls with the press
Political Parties
- National Party Web Sites
- American Heritage Party
- American Independent Party
- American Party
- American Reform Party
- Communist Party USA
- Constitution Party
- Formed by merger of U.S. Taxpayers Party and Internet Party in November 1999
- Democratic Party
- Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
- Democratic Leadership Council
- Democratic National Committee
- Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
- House Democratic Caucus
- House Democratic Leadership
- Senate Democratic Policy Committee
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Family Values Party
- Freedom Socialist Party
- Green Party
- Independent American Party
- Internet Party
- Labor Party
- Libertarian Party
- Light Party
- Natural Law Party
- New Party
- New Union Party
- Peace and Freedom Party
- Prohibition Party and Prohibition Party New Web Site
- Reform Party
- Republican Party
- Socialist Equality Party
- Socialist Labor Party
- Socialist Party USA
- Socialist Workers Party
- Southern Independence Party
- Workers World Party
- Democratic National
Convention
- Denver, Colorado, August 25-28, 2008
- How to become a State Delegate
- Libertarian Party National
Convention
- Denver, Colorado, May 22-26, 2008
- Republican National
Convention
- Minneapolis/St.Paul - September 1-4, 2008
- National Party Convention
Proceedings at the University of Michigan Library
- List of Democratic and Republican convention proceedings since 1832
- Refers to paper and microfilm call numbers and URLs as available
- Also includes notes for inter-library loan or the Vanderbilt Television Archive
- National Party Conventions
- Provides ballots for Presidential candidates and major rules by state since, 1835-2004
- Doc Ref: JK 2255 .N3751
- 2008 Platforms
- 2004 Platforms
- Democratic
- Green Party
- Libertarian (2006)
- Republican Platform (Courtesy of CBS News)
- Historic
Party Platforms (American Presidency Project)
- Full text of national party platforms, including major third parties, 1840-2004
Public
Opinion Polls
- 2008
Elections Project (HHH Institute of Public Affairs)
- Presidential elections from the perspective of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota
- Presidential job approval ratings and public opinion polls on in-depth issues for those states
- Presidential, Congressional and gubernatorial election results for the four states since 1960
- Third party election statistics for 2002 (all states)
- Some issue briefs
- Atlas of U.S.
Presidential Elections (David Leip)
- Latest presidential preference by candidate and state, separately for Republicans and Democrats
- Overall projections of electoral votes by state
- Create your own presidential predictions and electoral college calculator
- Chicago Council on Global
Affairs
- Annual public opinion polls of U.S. attitudes toward international affairs
- Electoral
Vote
- Electoral vote projections updated several times per day before the elections
- Based on the latest public opinion polls
- As of November 9, 2007, some opinion poll data on Presidential contenders by state
- Exit
Polls (MSNBC) [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21660890/]
- Exit polls conducted by Edison as part of pooled news election coverage
- Questions of voters break presidential choices by state and then factors such as sex, race, age, education, and income of the voter
- 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
- Kaiser Family
Foundation Surveys
- Surveys on American values, sex, health care issues, politics, and morals
- Full text since 1996
- Most in pdf format
- National
Annenberg Election Survey
[http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/ProjectDetails.aspx?myId=1]
- Weekly reserves provide public opinion on election issues: stem cell research, veteran service, assault weapons, candidate personalities, Iraq
- Data broken down by demographic characteristics
- The book and CD-ROM for 2000/2004 is cataloging for the Graduate Library stacks as "Capturing Campaign Dynamics" (JK 1968 2000 .C37 2006)
- 2008 survey to begin at the end of 2007
- Pew Research
Center
- Text and statistics of U.S. public opinion polls on politics, public policy, and the press
- Archive of files since 1985 available upon request
- 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
- Pollster
- Use the drop-down box on the right to choose presidential, congressional, or gubernatorial elections; then choose state
- Provides the latest poll information on the candidates in chart form with a tabular format below
- Also provides a multitude of links to the various polling organizations themselves
- Presidential
Job Performance (Roper Center)
- Public opinion polls on Presidential job performance
- Separate charts from Gallup, Yankelovich, ABC, NBC, and CBS rate the President several times per year since 1993
- Gallup ratings include begin with 1938 and rate president's since FDR
- Public
Agenda
- Nonpartisan, issue-oriented think tank
- Presents eighteen issues, including abortion, crime, gambling, immigration, internet privacy, social security, and welfare
- For each issue provides background, links to lobby groups, a digest of news stories, basic statistics, and a variety of state laws
- Numerous public opinion polls
- Rasmussen Reports Daily Tracking Poll
- Daily reports on favorite presidential candidates
- Chart of candidate popularity beginning 2007
- Real Clear
Politics
- Daily updates of the national and state polls
- Some news articles from both sides of the aisle
- Roper I-Poll (UMich Only)
[http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html]
- Search via subject or keyword and date to obtain poll results from a variety of organizations
- Rhodes
Cook Letter (UMich Only)
- Journal with election data and charts on Presidential, Congressional and gubernatorial races
- Includes public opinion polls, delegate counts, and state initiatives on various issues (e.g. gay marriage ban)
- American National Election Studies
(UMich-Center for Political Studies and Stanford) [http://www.electionstudies.org/]
- Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation studies
- Studies 1948-2004 available for download from Data Center for use with for use with SAS, SPSS; recent datasets available for use in STATA
- Also available
free to the public using the SDA Software on
the Berkeley web site
- EXAMPLE using SDA software
- Web sites include questionnaires, codebooks, and other materials
- Its Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public opinion, 1948 to present
- Coverage of 2008 expected at a later date
- Election
Day Exit Polls (Roper Center)
- Sells CDs of detailed election polls from the news organization pools for 2000 (Voter News Service) and 2004 (Edison Media Research)
- Detailed microdata at the national and state level includes Presidential and Senatorial choices, reasons for voting, and voter characteristics (age, income, religion)
- Documents Center CD-ROM (Docs CD-ROM Do258) has data in ASCII and SPSS formats for manipulation
- CD includes national and state summaries for both years in pdf (e.g. religion cross-tabulated by preferred candidate but not religion by income by preferred candidate
- Fourth
National Survey of Religion and Politics
- Data and analysis on how members of various religions voted for President and why
- General
Social Survey (ICPSR, NORC, UC-Berkeley)
[http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/]
- 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 using SDA software with American National Election Studies
- National Council on Public
Opinion Polls
- Principles of disclosure
- 20 questions journalists should ask when reading poll results
- Political
Forecasting
- Monthly projection of the presidential vote based on several different polling companies
- Begins May 2004
- Gearing up for 2008 but not data as of 11/6/2007
- 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
Comprehensive
| For candidate positions, see candidate web sites at Politics One, the National Political Awareness Test as it develops through Project Vote Smart, and links under Presidential Candidate Matching |
- 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
- Links may be a little dated for 2008 election
- 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
- On the
Issues
- Extensive web site analyzing positions of Presidential candidates as well as incumbent governors, senators and House members on a breaktaking variety of campaign issues
- Relies on their voting records but also includes position statements
- As of November 6, 2007, covers a combination of 2000-2008 candidates
- 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 Candidate/Voter Issue Matching, Public Opinion Polls, and Platforms
- Congressional Quarterly
(UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- Separate index for roll call votes beginning 1995
- Congressional Quarterly Almanac (Doc.Cen. JK 1 .C756--Ref.) is a reformulation of the weeklies, 1945-2006
- CQ Researcher (UMich Only)
- Large number of debate topics ranging from abortion to immigration to Social Security
- Each topic provides a summary, background information, and bibliography
- Some of the information goes back to the 1930s
- Congressional
Universe (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
- 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
- Indexes Congressional committee
hearings by subject, committee, date, and witness since 1970
- National
Journal (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
- National Journal focuses on the politics of the Executive Branch with some reference to current legislation
- Full text since 1977 available through the University of Michigan's campus license to Congressional Universe
Abortion
- Abortion
Statistics (Statistical Abstract of the United States)
- Annual publication with data compiled from various government and non-government sources
- Section 2, includes abortion statistics
- The 2002 edition has tables 88-90 on abortion by age, race, state, and length of gestation
- More current versions are less specific
- 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
- The law was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Carhart April 18, 2007
- 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
- State Policies on Abortion (Guttmacher Institute)
- Series of policies on abortion issues with comparisons for individual states
- Covers partial birth abortion bans, medicaid funding, parental consent, and projected abortion policy if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court
- Historic
Supreme Court Cases Regarding Abortion (Cornell)
- List of key supreme court cases that defined the courts stand on abortion
- Each case includes links to the syllabus, opinion, concurrence(s), and/or dissenting opinion(s)
- Supreme
Court Confirmation Hearings
- Site provides links to confirmation hearings of each supreme court justice since 1971
- Each hearing has a table of contents that links to various sections of witness testimony, questions and answers to the nominee, and submitted statements from outside interest groups
- Might include various comments about a nominee's previous rulings and views on abortion
- CRS Report -
Abortion: Legislative Response (RL33467)
- Report published by the Congressional Research Service on June 8, 2006
- Report examines the history of legislative and judicial decisions regarding abortion
Economics
- Budget and
Economic Outlook, (Congressional Budget Office)
- On-going series analyzing the President's budget
- Projects yearly expenditures and revenues for the 10-year period
- 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 2007
- Household
Economics (Census Bureau)
- Historical and current data on personal income and poverty by characteristics
- Data through 2006
- Center for Responsible Lending
- Statistics on the number of subprime mortgages, amount in default, and likely percentage of foreclosures
- Possible ripple effects of foreclosures on the economy
- Predatory and Subprime Lending Mortgage Issues (House Committee on Financial Services)
- Describes the Mortgage Reform and Predatory Lending Act of 2007 approved by the committee on November 6, 2007
- Includes a foreclosure manual to assist homeowners
- Legislative Proposals on Reforming Mortgage Practices was a hearing held on October 24, 2007 prior to the bill's committee approval
- U.S. Housing Market Conditions (HUD)
- Quarterly journal with national and regional market conditions, including housing starts and foreclosures
- Mortgage
Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007
- Additional Title: " To amend the Truth in Lending Act to reform consumer mortgage practices and provide accountability for such practices, to establish licensing and registration requirements for residential mortgage originators, to provide certain minimum standards for consumer mortgage loans, and for other purposes"
- Passed in the House of Representatives 11/15/2007
- THOMAS provides detailed information on current status, amendments, CRS summary, CBO cost analysis, etc.
- Home
Foreclosures Over Time (Department of Housing and Urban
Development)
- Publication: U.S. Housing Markets Conditions (2nd Quarter of 2007)
- Refer to Table 18 (Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures Started: 1986–Present) for detailed information about the foreclosures over time
- Tips on
avoiding foreclosure (Department of Housing and Urban
Development)
- Provides a list of ten suggested ways to avoid foreclosure
- Current News on
Foreclosures (CNN)
- Website by cnn.money.com that provides daily articles regarding the current housing crisis
- Takeover of
Fannie Mae and Freddic Mac
- Secretary of Treasury Paulson's announcement on the government takeover of the two mortgage giants, made September 7, 2008
- Includes links to more detailed briefings
- See also Mortgages
- Treasury
Department Proposal
- Proposal given to Congress by the Treasury Department to take over $700 billion in bad mortgage debt on September 19, 2008
- Economic
and Financial Crisis (Mississippi State University)
- Comprehensive guide to sources to the U.S. economic crisis beginning 2007 and the economic recovery plan underway
- Legislative histories of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- Federal and state recovery resources
- Data and timelines to track the crisis, scams to avoid, how to live in a recession
- Created by Jason Phillips at Mississippi State University with assistance from documents librarians around the country
- For further resources available at the University of Michigan, contact govdocs@umich.edu
- Emergency
Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
- Draft proposal of Wall Street bailout announced on September 28, 2008
- Another Copy
- H.R. 3997 defeated in House on September 29, 2008 by a Roll Call Vote: 205 Yes, 218 No
- Emergency
Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
- Public Law 110-343 (H.R. 1424), signed by President on October 3, 2008
- Senate Roll Call Vote 212 passed 74/25 on October 1, 2008
- House Roll Call Vote 681 passed 263-171 on October 3, 2008
- Office of
Financial Security
- Name of new office to administer stablization program
- Will be established under the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Security
- Federal
Budget FY 2008
- 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
- 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
- House Ways and
Means Committee
- Selected hearings on tax code revision
- U.S. National
Debt Clock
- Total federal deficit updated daily plus per capita share
- Bureau
of Public Debt
- Daily listing of federal deficit down to the penny
- Tax
Policy Center
- Frequently updated reports comparing the McCain and Obama tax policies
- Includes charts on how each would change individual income taxes given various household scenarios
Education
- Education Commission of the States
- NCLB reauthorization database has numerous recommendations on improving the program from itself and other organizations, such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers
- National Conference of State Legislatures
- State accountability plans and recommendations for improvement
- 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 Matters
- CRS Report -
The No Child Left Behind Act: An Overview of Reauthorization Issues for
the 110th Congress (RL33749)
- Report published by the Congressional Research Service on April 20, 2007
- Report examines the concerns about the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)
- Beyond
NCLB: Fulfilling the Promise of Our Nation's Children
(ERIC)
- Report regarding successes and shortcomings of No Child Left Behind
- Used to assess the program as Congress considered reauthorizing the legislation
- The Seven Deadly
Sins of No Child Left Behind
- Essay written by Paul D. Houston, the President of the American Association of School Administrators
- Published in the Phi Delta Kappan
- Outlines the shortcomings of the NCLB legislation, including: NCLB assumes that American schools are broken, NCLB implies that standardized testing is the only way to evaluate educational programs, NCLB doesn't address economically depressed areas, NCLB uses scare tactics against teachers, NCLB lacks clarity, NCLB doesn't consider expert advice, and NCLB and international comparisons in education do not consider higher levels of Blooms Taxonomy.
- NEA Offers Plan
to Improve NCLB (National Education Association)
- Website includes NEA's recommended changes, ways that the general public can get involved, information about presidential candidates' stands, You Tube videos of statements about NCLB, and more.
Energy
- See also Gas
Prices
- Alternative Fuels
(UMich)
- Comprehensive web site to fossil fuel alternatives written for the 2008/09 National High School Debate Topic
- Department of Energy
- Main departmental web page links to President Bush's Twenty-in-Ten Proposal for improving energy security
- Tips on how to save energy on appliances and gasoline in cards
- Strategic goals
- Energy Information Administration
- Access current and historic data on various energy sources, including production, consumption, prices, and foreign trade
- Includes world crude oil prices by country
- Analysis of alternative fuels
- 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
- Gas
Prices Since 1973
- Excel spreadsheet created by the Energy Information Administration showing the average price of gas in U.S. Cities
- Includes information about leaded, unleaded regular, and unleaded premium gas
- This Week In
Petroleum
- Provides analysis of petroleum prices each week, including crude oil, gasoline, propane, and distillate
- Includes many informative charts and graphics to help users see trends across the United States
- Petroleum
Basics
- Website provides many links to web pages on various facets dealing with petroleum from the history of the market to how prices are determined
- Website is created by the Energy Information Administration
- Fuel
Ethanol: Background and Public Policy Issues
(RL33290)
- CRS report that outlines the history of ethanol fuel and policy issues related to supporting this legislation
- Report published July 30, 2007
- Alternative
Fuels Comparison Chart (Department of Energy)
- Chart created by the Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center
- Chart compares gasoline, no. 2 diesel, biodiesel, CNG, electricity, ethanol, hydrogen, LNG, liquid petroleum gas, and methanol
- Includes 18 categories of comparison, including: energy released per gallon, environmental concerns, security and amount of supply, etc.
Gay Marriage
- Bush
Statement on Constitutional Amendment
- Text of President's announcement supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage
- Made at the White House on February 24, 2004
- Constitution
of the United States Annotated
- Official text of the constitution and amendments annotated with Supreme Court cases
- Only 33 amendments were approved by Congress and 27 ratified by the states
- Text of Unratified Amendments
- Constitutional Amendment
- H.J.Res
106
- Text of bill defeated in the House on Sept. 30, 2004
- Roll Call Vote (227-Y; 186-N)
- S.J.Res.40
- Text of bill
- Motion to proceed with consideration withdrawn on July 15, 2004
- H.J.Res
106
- 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
- Healthy
Marriage Initiative
- Provides grants on training to promote strong marriages between heterosexual adults
- Funded through the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
- 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
- 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
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
- Dated 2004
- 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)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Synthesizes scientific reports on climate change and recommends governmental action
- Guidelines for greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, and restoring the ozone layer
- Its Synthesis
Report #4
- Released on November 17, 2007
- World can expect 4.5 foot rise in oceans in next 1000 years
- If carbon dioxide not capped by 2015 and reductions begin, Europe will lose species, Africa will suffer from water shortages, Asia from flooding, North America from longer and hotter heat waves
- Winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore
- 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
- What You
Can Do (An Inconvenient Truth)
- Provides a list of ways for the general public to help fight the war against global warming
- Other sections of the website discuss the science of global warming and the movie "An Inconvenient Truth"
- CRS
Reports on Global Warming and Related Issues (National
Council for Science and the Environment)
- Provides links to sixty-four CRS reports on climate change and related topics
- Reports cover state, national, and global efforts to fight climate change
- Global
Climate Change Policy Handbook (White House)
- Lays out the Bush Administration's agenda on global climate change issues (February 2002)
- Senate
Environment and Public Works - Issues Page (Democrat)
- Includes press releases, speeches, and hearings regarding global warming issues
- Senate
Environment and Public Works - Issues Page (Republican)
- Includes press releases, speeches, blogs, and hearings regarding global warming issues
- Carbon
Footprint Calculator (Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works)
- Provides a way for users to evaluate the amount of carbon they are responsible for releasing into the air each year
- Provides suggestions for ways that people can cut down on carbon emissions
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Subject discussed in numerous hearings during 2006 and 2007
- Use the web site's search engine for statements, press releases, and blogs
- Congressional Budget Office
- Approaches to Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions (November 1, 2007)
- Potential for Carbon Sequestration in the United States (September 2007)
- Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for Co2 Emissions (April 2007)
- Limiting Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Prices vs. Caps (March 2005)
- The
Global Warming Survival Kit: What You Can Do: The Carbon
Tax (TIME)
- Brief section comparing the cap and trade model with the carbon tax model
- Part of a larger article about what individuals and groups can do to reduce carbon emissions
- Summary of
Rep. John Dingell's future carbon emissions tax
legislation
- Provides a basic summary of Rep. John Dingell's draft legislation proposing a carbon emissions tax
Health Insurance
- Census
Bureau
- Longitudinal and cross-sectional health insurance statistics by state and various socioeconomic characteristics
- Data covers 1987-2006
- Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform of 2006 (Families USA)
- Explains the program expanding coverage to all citizens
- 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
- Uninsured in
America (PBS News Hour)
- Ongoing series of reports on health insurance coverage and state efforts to expand it
- Medicare
Trustees Report
- Detailed expenses and projections on the health of the trust fund
- 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
- Guidance in choosing a prescription drug plan
- Families
USA (Families USA)
- Analysis of the operation of the current prescription drug plan
- 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
- Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of 2007
- Text of S.3, which would have amended the law to allow for price negotiation
- Vote blocked by Senate Republicans on April 18, 2007
- Includes text of bill, legislative status, statements in Congressional Record, and Apri l8th roll call vote
- Congressional Bills
- H.R. 976
- Reauthorization expanded the SCHIP program over the next five years
- Link includes bill text, House report, CBO cost estimate, and roll call votes in the House and Senate
- Vetoed by President on October 3, 2007
- H.R. 3963
1
- Bill introduced on October 24, 2007
- Text of bill, House and Senate roll call votes
- H.R. 976
- 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
- SCHIP
(Congressional Budget Office)
- Analysis of the President's proposals on funding the State Children's Health Program
- Estimates of uninsured children
Immigration
- Congressional Bills
- S. 1348
- Included legal path to immigration for illegal aliens
- Died when Senate refused to limit debate on June 7, 2007
- Text of bill and summary, debates on the floor of Congress and roll call vote
- S. 1639
- Included $4 billion in border security
- Died when Senate refused to limit debate on June 28, 2007
- Text of bill and summary, debates on the floor of Congress and roll call vote
- Immigration
Overhaul Stymied (UMich Only)
- Article dated July 9, 2007 describing the failed Senate negotiations to create an immigration bill
- S. 1348
- Immigrant Identification
- The
ABC's of ID's for U.S. Immigrants (National Conference of State
Legislatures
- Explains the various state requirements to identify aliens for identity of employment
- Real ID
- Public
Law 109-13
- Established asylum, identification, and border fence policies
- States must follow certain procedures for issuing driver's licenses to use as a permanent federal ID but can opt out (e.g. issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens) as long as the driver's licenses are marked as unusable for federal identification
- CQ Weekly's Summary of Law (UMich Only)
- Real
ID Update
- Explains the intent of the Real ID Act and the various actions states have taken to comply or not comply with its requirements
- Real ID
News
- Numerous news stories on state implementation of the Real ID law
- Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens (Spitzer)
- Eliot Spitzer's speech of November 14 withdrawing a proposal to given illegal aliens driver's licenses
- Explained his rationale and blamed the federal government for failing to protect the borders
- Public
Law 109-13
- The
ABC's of ID's for U.S. Immigrants (National Conference of State
Legislatures
- Enacted
State Legislation Related to Immigrants and Immigration
- Survey of state bills on immigration and their status (passed, defeated, vetoed) from January to July 2007
- Subjects include education, public health, driver's licenses, employment
- Summary
of State Laws on the Issuance of Driver's Licenses (Congressional
Research Service)
- Table of state laws on licenses for illegal aliens
- Updated September 13, 2005
- CRS Report RL32127
- Border Security
- House Committee on Homeland Security
- Search the main web site under "border security" for the statements of Democratic members
- There is a separate Republican web site but the search engine does not work
- The Secure Border Initiative is full text testimony on a committee hearing dated November 15, 2006
- Border Security: Barriers Along the U.S. International Border (CRS)
- Analyzes the effects of the San Diego border fence and initiatives in Arizona
- House Committee on Homeland Security
- Size and Characteristics of the Unauthorized Migrant Population (PEW Hispanic Center)
- National data on the numbers, nationality, family characteristics and occupations held by illegal aliens in the United States
- Based on the 2005 Current Population Survey
Iran
- Congressional Bills
- H.R. 1400
- Bans imports and expands the ban on most exports to Iran
- Calls on President Bush to declare the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization and grants him the authority to block its assets
- House Vote 895
- H.R. 1585
- Kyl/Lieberman Amendment to the defense authorization bill declaring the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization
- Senate Vote 349
- H.R. 1400
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- Text of UN Security Council resolutions on Iran's nuclear program
- Press releases and statements on inspections and safeguards
- Economic Sanctions
- Details of economic sanctions against Iran announced by Secretary of State Rice and Treasury Secretary Paulson on October 25, 2007
- Iran:
Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities (National Intelligence
Estimate)
- Report suggests that Iran halted its nuclear weapon program in 2003 as the result of international pressure
- Believes Iran could still continue its weapons program in the future but it would not be ready before 2015
- Released December 3, 2007
- Iranian
President's
Speech to the United Nations (September 25, 2007)
- Transcript of a speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad begins on p. 17
- Iranian
President's Speech to Columbia University (September 25,
2007)
- Transcript of a speech to Columbia University students by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Includes introductory remarks by President of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger
- Amnesty
International Reports On Human Rights Violations in
Iran
- List of links to Amnesty International reports on violations of human rights
- State
Department Human Rights Report: Iran (March 8, 2006)
- Part of the "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" Series published by the U.S. Department of State
- CIA
World Factbook: Iran
- Includes information about Iran's history, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, and military
- Also includes information about transnational issues related to Iran
Iraq
- See complete Documents Center coverage in Iraq War Debate
- Congressional
Resolution - 2002
- Daschle
Hopes to Limit Iraq Resolution (CNN)
- Senate Majority Tom Daschle wants to limit war powers to eliminating Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Believes broader resolution sets a precedent for other countries
- Article also describes Ted Kennedy's views
- Based on interviews conducted October 6, 2002
- H.J.R.
114 - BILL PASSED BY
CONGRESS
- Bill agreement between Dennis Hastert, Dick Gephardt, and President Bush
- S. J. Res
45
- Resolution authorizing the President's use of force in Iraq
- Introduced by Tom Daschle and Trent Lott on September 26, 2002
- S. J. Res.
46
- Introduced by Carl Levin
- Senate Debate
- Congressional Record (Oct. 4, 2002, pp. 9933-9938)
- Congressional Record (Oct. 7, 2002, pp. S60006-S60031)
- Congressional Record (Oct. 8, 2002, pp. S60007-S60107)
- Congressional Record (Oct. 9, 2002, pp. S60145-S60217)
- Congressional Record (Oct. 10, 2002, pp. S60233-60272)
- Congressional Record (Oct. 10, 2002, p. 60342)
- Senate
Roll Call Vote on HJR 114
- Vote conducted in the wee hours of October 11, 2002, 77-23
- Arranged by Senator, yea or nay, and state
- House Debate
- House Committee Report 107-721)
- Congressional Record (Oct. 8, 2002. pp. H7189-7301)
- Congressional Record (Oct. 9, 2002, pp. 7309-7735)
- Congressional Record (Oct. 10, 2002, pp. H7739-H7799)
- House
Roll Call Vote on HJR 114
- Vote passed House on October 10, 2002, 296 to 133
- Arranged by yea and nay
- Daschle
Hopes to Limit Iraq Resolution (CNN)
- 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)
- Casualties
- Iraq
Coalition Casualties
- Count for U.S., UK and other casualties by month
- Casualty names, circumstances, numerous maps
- U.S.
and Coalition Casualties (CNN)
- Picture, name, age, unit, hometown, and circumstances of death
- U.S. Casualties in Iraq (Global Security)
- Monthly count of those wounded as well as killed since 2003
- Iraqi Civilian Casualties
- Iraq
Coalition Casualties
- Cost of War in
Iraq (National Priorities Project
- 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
- 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
- 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
- State of the Union
Message
- 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
- The mission was terminated in June 2007
- Securing,
Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: Iraqi Government Has Not Met Most
Legislative, Security, and Economic Benchmarks
- General Accountability Office Report 07-1195, released September 4, 2007
- The Iraqi government has met three of the 18 benchmarks established by the U.S.: establishing security stations and committees around them to support Baghdad as well as establishing minority party rights
- It has not met de-Baathification, oil revenue sharing, provincial election, and amnesty goals
- National
Strategy for Victory in Iraq
- Outlines short, medium and long-term benchmarks to be met in Iraq before a U.S. pullout of troops
- Defines political, economic and security issues
- The appendix defines eight objectives and specific actions the United States is taking
- Report released by the National Security Council in November 2005
- Another copy
- Surge Strategy
- New
Way Forward in Iraq
- Outline of President Bush's strategy released January 10, 2007
- Points include: let the Iraqis lead; help Iraqis protect the population; isolate extremists; create space for political progress; diversify political and economic efforts; and situate the strategy in a regional approach, and a surge of 21,500 troops
- President's Address to the Nation
- House Con Res 63, disapproving the surge in Iraq, passed by a roll call vote on February 16, 2007
- S. 574, expressing the Senate's disapproval on the surge, was set aside on February 17, 2007 after the vote on cloture failed
- New
Way Forward in Iraq
- Surge Strategy Assessments
- Petraeus/Crocker Testimony to House Armed Services Committee/September 10, 2007
- Report
of the Independent Commission on Security Forces in
Iraq
- Known as the Jones report and presented to Congress in September 2007
- Suggests there are steady improvements in the Iraqi military but the Iraqi police forces remain poor
- Withdrawal Strategy
- H.R.
1591 provides Iraq War appropriations pending a
U.S. withdrawal
in September 2008
- Conference version required U.S. to begin withdrawal in October 2007 and complete in 2008
- House Roll Call Vote
- Senate Roll Call Vote
- S. 965 calls for withdrawal by March 31, 2008
- H.R. 4156
- Called for $50 billion in Iraq War supplemental funding but required troops to withdraw by the end of 2008
- House Roll Call Vote on November 15, 2007
- The Senate put H.R. 4156 (Democrat) aside on November 16, 2007 due to cloture failure
- Senate Bill 2340 (Republican), providing $70 billion in funding, put aside on November 16, 2007 due to cloture failure
- Net result of cloture votes: war funding bill will not advance in 2007 and some military cuts may be necessary by February 2009
- H.R.
1591 provides Iraq War appropriations pending a
U.S. withdrawal
in September 2008
Presidential Primary Competition
- Presidential Primaries (Natl Assoc of Secretaries of State)
- List of presidential primaries and caucuses arranged by date
- Proposal to rotate presidential primaries by region
- Presidential Elections Reform: Primaries (Fair Vote)
- Lays out several different plans for allocating the primaries between states
- Texts of newspaper articles describing the state scramble to be the first primary
- Path to the
Presidency (CNN)
- Includes a US map of primaries by month.
- Provides specific primary/caucus dates for each state (and in some cases each party of each state)
- Also includes a general overview of the election cycle, the party conventions, and other pertinent information on the election process
Social Security
- National Commission on
Retirement Policy
- Recommends retirement age of 70 by year 2029 and putting 2% of payroll tax into individual savings accounts
- Report co-chaired by Members of Congress and private sector
- Released May 19, 1998
- 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 History
- Extensive history of social security and legislation since 1935
- Includes presidential statements, Roosevelt through Bush II
- Archival materials and pamphlets
- Reports of the Greenspan Commission (1983) and the President's Commission on Social Security (2001)
- Social
Security Trustees Report: 2006
- Social Security funds to become stretched, 2010-2030 and exhausted by 2042
- Galveston
Plan v. Social Security Plan
- Comparative report published by the Social Security Administration in 1999
Stem Cell Research
- Human
Skin Cells Reprogrammed to Act Like Stems Cells (CNN)
- James Thomson of Univ.Wisc-Madison and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University announced on November 20, 2007 that they had separately been able to reprogram adult human skill cells
- Breakthough may negate embryonic stem cell issue
- Must first control cell overgrowth so malignant tumor threat eliminated
- National Bioethics Advisory Commission
- Ethical issues on fetal and adult stem cell research
- Presidential policy and current stem cell lines
- NIH Stem
Cell
Information
- News, reports, and testimony on stem cell research
- Draft NIH guidelines for stem cell research
- Funding opportunities
- President's Stem Cell Policy
- Permits stem cell research along exising lines only
- Speech to the nation on August 9, 2001
- State Stem Cell Research Laws
- A 50-state table on stem cell research laws permitting the use and sale of embryos
- State Funding of Stem Cell Research
- Whether or not state funding can be used for fetal or adult stem cell research
Terrorism
- See complete Documents Center coverage in
America's War Against Terrorism.
- Commission on National
Security/21
- Known as the Hart-Rudman Commission
- New
World Coming
- Phase I report issued in October 1999
- Recommends a cabinet-level position for protection of the homeland
- Full text also available in paper copy in the Graduate Library under the title New World Coming (UA 23 .N471 1999)
- Seeking a National
Strategy: A Concert for Preserving Security and Freedom
(UNT)
- Phase II report issued in April 2000
- Roadmap for
National Security: Imperative for Change (UNT)
- Phase III report issued in February 2001
- Changes needed in federal government organization
- American Still
Unprepared - America Still in Danger
- Hart-Rudman report issued October 2002
- Believes the United States is so involved formation of Dept. of Homeland Security that it hasn't taken needed action to protect Americans
- Recommends priority should be given to port security, training of local police and national guard
- Issued by the Council on Foreign Relations
- Department of Homeland Security
- Terrorism prevention initiatives, including container security and infrastructure protection
- National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks Upon The United States (9/11 Commission)
- Independent commission headed by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton
- Final report on full circumstances surrounding the attack, prevention errors and response
- Web site includes the full text of public hearings and a series of interim reports
- Commission formally ended in 2004 but has continued its work with the 9 11 Discourse Project
- Worldwide Incidents Tracking
System (National Counterterrorism Tracking Center)
- Search by keyword, region, and/or date to obtain a brief description of terrorist incidents around the world since January 1, 2004
- Data includes fatalities, injuries, and hostages
- Click on incident for known perpetrators
- Interactive map also available
General
Election Results - 2008
- Election
Night (Congressional Research Service)
- State-by-state guide to official state election web sites as well as the major newspaper and television web sites
- Great source for determining results as they develop on November 4, 2008
- Prepared by the Library of Congress Congressional Research Service staff (Jennifer, Jerry, Julius, Pam) for a House committee and used by permission
- 2008
Election Results (CNN)
- Results by office (President, Senate, House, Governor, Ballot Proposals) and then subdivided by state
- Includes exit polls by state and final results by state and county
- Rolling counts expected on 11-4-08
- Our
Campaigns
- Election results for President, Senate, House, and Governors by state expected on 11-5-08
- Each table provides votes of winner, percent, margin of victory, and percent of victory
- Presidential table also includes state electoral votes and split electoral votes for state when applicable
- Includes information on pre-election polls
- Maps of the
2008 US Presidential Election Results
- Maps created by Mark Newman of the University of Michigan representing alternative ways to look at the election
- Includes state maps skewed to represent population size and number of electoral votes
- County maps skewed to show percentages of the electorate
- Presidential
Election Results - 2008 (MSNBC)
- Top spot for election results
- Data and percentages by state and county
- Exit polls for each county include age, race, top issues, religious affiliation
- Presidential
Election Results - 2008 (CNN)
- Results by office (President, Senate, House, Governor, Ballot Proposals) and then subdivided by state
- Includes exit polls by state and final results by state and county
- 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
- Data for 2000-2006; possible update after 2008 election
- Presidential Results by Congressional District
- Not compiled in the normal course of elections
- PoliData is a commercial source compiling the data for sale
- Congressional district votes for president since 1992 are available as free .pdf documents; see the bottom of each state page found at: http://www.polidata.us/books/default.htm
- Results from previous elections appear under Congressional District descriptions in Almanac of American Politics (UMich Only)
- Congress
2009/2010 (UMich)
- Spreadsheet for House, Senate, and Gubernatorial candidates showing incumbent and party, person elected and party, and person defeated
- Color coded and may also be sorted for power change purposes
- House Results
by State - 2008 (CNN)
- Use pull down box for list of all races by state
- Not dependent on maps
- Senate
Election Results - 2008 (CNN)
- List of Senate election results by state
- Clicking on a state gives election results by county and an exit poll by sex and age
- Congressional and Gubernatorial Candidates: 2008
(UMich)
- Spreadsheet of 2007 Governors and 110th Congressional incumbents indicating re-election or retirement plans
- The Gubernatorial and Senate worksheets also list those not up for re-election in 2008
- Details on individual races will be added as state primaries are held; general election results appear after 11-4-08
- 2008
Election Results (CNN)
- Statewide election results for governor positions as well as a map
- Click on the state gives exit polls by age and sex as well as a county map of results
- Congressional and Gubernatorial Candidates: 2008
(UMich)
- Spreadsheet of 2007 Governors and 110th Congressional incumbents indicating re-election or retirement plans
- The Gubernatorial and Senate worksheets also list those not up for re-election in 2008
- Details on individual races will be added as state primaries are held; general election results appear after 11-4-08
- Secretary
of State Offices (Political Resources)
- Links to state Secretary of State offices
- Individual web sites often have campaign information and election results
- Michigan
Unofficial General Election Results (Secy. of
State)
- Results for President, school board, proposals, university governance, judgeships, and statewide proposals by county
- Results for Congressional and state legislative districts by district
- Rolling data to appear the night of 11-4-08
- Washtenaw
County Election Results: November 2008
- Votes for state and local office for the entire county and individual precincts
- Includes voter turnout and people voting straight party tickets
- Data to appear after 11-4-08
Primaries and
Caucuses
- Primary Scorecard (CNN)
- Running count of delegates committed to individual candidates by state
- Includes pledged by vote and unpledged (can decide on own)
- Click on state for more information about the primaries and caucuses
- Data expected as primaries held in January 2008
- Calendars
- State Presidential Primary Dates (Project Vote Smart)
- List of Republican adn Democratic Presidential Primary dates for each state
- Updated frequently to include changes
- State
Primaries: 2008
- List of primary elections by state or date
- Primaries are statewide; they may or may not include Presidential preferences
- State Presidential Primary Dates (Project Vote Smart)
Election Laws
- Early Voting and Absentee Ballot Laws (NASS)
- 2007 comparison of state election laws on the subject
- 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 and a brief description of their provisional voting laws
- Compiled by the National Association of Secretaries of State in 2004
- 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, student residency requirements
- Residency Requirements for College Students (NASS)
- Comparative state laws based on survey
Electoral
College
- 270 to Win
- Interactive map of electoral college for 2008
- Begin by viewing the map as neutral, with 2004 results
- Toggle to change the colors and determine a strategy
- Faithless Electors
- List and brief biographies of the 156 electors who did not vote for president as indicated by their state's electoral vote
- Electoral College (Fair Vote)
- How the electoral college works, which states bind their electors, faithless electors
- Maine and Nebraska proportion votes by Congressional District; all other states use winner-take
- Previous controversial elections, which states have advantage, previous attempts at reform
- Organization is lobbying for Presidential election by popular vote
- United
States
Electoral College (NARA)
- Electoral college laws and procedures
- State-by-state electoral college votes, 1789-2004
- Create your own electoral vote scenario
- State by State Elector Names: 2008
Voter Registration
and Participation
- Election Assistance Commission
- National Mail Voter Registration Form
- Information for election officials on voting standards and equipment
- Election Official Directory
- Determine your current county election official
- State
Voter Registration Offices (Overseas Vote Foundation)
- Directions, deadlines and ballot submission guidelines for overseas and military voters
- Vote 411 (League of Women Voters)
- Voter registration procedures by state
- Early voting, provisional ballot, and voter ID guidelines
- Voting Assistance Guide
- Extensive voting assistance guide for military personnel
- Presidential and state primary dates and runoff dates
- Voter registration and instructions by state
- National Election Studies
(UMich-Center for Political Studies)
- Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation studies
- Studies 1994+ available for ftp for use with SAS or SPSS
- Documentation in Word Perfect format
- Web site includes 2000 Pre- and Post-Election Questionnaires
- National Election Studies: 2004 has data for the pre- and post-election studies
- Its Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public opinion, 1952 to present
- 2008 election surveys being planned as of 11-9-07
- Political Party
Affiliation
- Election Data Book 1992 (GL Ref. JK 1967
.E44)
- Table D for each state provides political party registration for
those states where party registration is required:
-
AK AR CA CO CN DE FL IA KS KY LA MA MD NE NV NH NJ NC NM OK
OR PA SD WV WY DC
- Table D for each state provides political party registration for
those states where party registration is required:
- Election
Day Exit Polls (Roper Express - UMich Only)
- Sells CDs of detailed election polls from the news organization pools for 2000 (Voter News Service) and 2004 (Edison Media Research) plus provides some tabulations online
- Detailed microdata at the national and state level includes Presidential and Senatorial choices, reasons for voting, and voter characteristics (age, income, religion, party affiliation)
- Independent votes for Republican or Democrat
- Exit
Polls (MSNBC) [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21660890/]
- Exit polls conducted by Edison as part of pooled news election coverage
- Includes voter's party affiliation regardless of how voted in primary
- Election Data Book 1992 (GL Ref. JK 1967
.E44)
- Road to American
Democracy, 1984-1990 (Harvard/MIT Data Center)
- Variables include 1 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
- Variables include 1
- 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
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 and 2004 Presidential elections
- Updates for 2008 expected
After the Elections
- President Elect
- Change.Gov
- Daily news on the Presidential transition beginning with Senator Obama's speech on November 4, 2008
- Biographies of the president, vice president and their spouses
- High level posts to be filled, job applications, and an opportunity to "share your story"
- Presidential
Transition Resources (GSA)
- Organization chart of the government
- Links to leadership positions to be filled (most current versions of the plum and prune books)
- Detailed guidance on records and ethics for nominees and appointees
- Transition laws and links to inaugural information
- Change.Gov
- Plum
Book 2008
- List of positions available for Presidential appointment, pay scale, and incumbent
- "Plum" refers to "Political Plum"
- Prune
Book 1997
- Administrative skills needed for federal executive jobs
- Prepared by industry to assist changes in administration
Historical Campaigns
- America Votes:
Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special
Collections Library
- Photographs of campaign buttons, posters and brochures, 1796-2000
- Extent of coverage varies with the election
- Ease History
(MSU)
- Clips of television Presidential campaign ads, 1952-2004
- Uses flash player
- Searchable by year, winners/losers, positive/negiative, issues, and themes
- Stunning piece of research
- Livingroom
Candidate (American Museum of the Moving Image)
- At least one campaign video apiece for each of the major Presidential candidates, 1952-2008
- Available in a variety of viewing formats, including RealPlay and Windows Media
- National
Journal Ad Spotlight (UMich Only)
- Campaign ads using Real Player since 1998, including the 2008 election
- Presidential, gubernatorial, and Congressional races
- RealPlayer is available at campus computing sites and can access all of the ads in this series
- Political
Communication Laboratory (Stanford)
- Videos of campaign ads for the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Presidential election
- Ads for the California governorship in 1994, 2002, 2003, and 2006
Historic
Election Results
- 270 to Win
- Map of electoral college votes since 1789
- 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
- Related publication: America at the Polls, 1920-56 (Ref. JK 524 .G72 v.1) has county-level Presidential election results within each state section and Presidential preference primary results at the back of the book
- Presidential Elections Since 1789 (Doc. Cen. JK 524 .C746) provides the popular vote by state (not county), 1824-1916, and electoral votes by state (the only votes available), 1789-1916
- Clerk
of the House
- Historical data includes national electoral college results since the 1st Congress, Presidential and Senatorial election results by state and House by district since 1920
- Data on the political divisions in Congress since the 34th Congress
- CNN
- Consistent for retaining old election results on the internet
- Includes exit polls which provide presidential votes by voter demographics
- The Vote '96
- Election 1998
- Election 2000 Down on 2/4/2009
- Election 2002
- Election 2004
- Election 2006
- Election 2008
- 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 1980-2008
- Maps and tables with Presidential votes since 1860
- Election
Day Exit Polls (Roper Express - UMich Only)
- Sells CDs of detailed election polls from the news organization pools for 2000 (Voter News Service) and 2004 (Edison Media Research) plus provides some tabulations online
- Detailed microdata at the national and state level includes Presidential and Senatorial choices, reasons for voting, and voter characteristics (age, income, religion, party affiliation)
- Independent votes for Republican or Democrat
- Documents Center CD-ROM (Docs CD-ROM Do258) has data in ASCII and SPSS formats for manipulation
- CD includes national and state summaries for both years in pdf (e.g. religion cross-tabulated by preferred candidate but not religion by income by preferred candidate
- National Election Studies
(UMich-Center for Political Studies)
- Documentation on voting, public opinion, and political participation studies
- Studies 1994+ available for ftp for use with SAS or SPSS
- Documentation in Word Perfect format
- Its Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior provides summary data on social, economic, partisanship, and public opinion, 1952 to present
- 2008 is being organized as of 11-9-7
- A New Nation
Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825 (Tufts/American
Antiquarian Society)
- Search for state, county and city election results for federal, state, and local officials, 1787-1825
- You can search by combinations of states, candidates, office titles, dates
- This is original research by Philip Lampi from a time when election records were scattered
- PoliData
- PRESIDENTIAL and Congressional election results by district, 1992-2004
- Political
Maps
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- 2008 maps include various predictions of the Presidential race as well as New York Times campaign finance maps and a few primary maps
- Archived maps back to 1980 include electoral votes, Presidential elections, Presidential fund-raising, and purple nation maps but not campaign maps
- Road to American
Democracy, 1984-1990 (Harvard/MIT Data Center)
- Variables include population items from the 1990 Census (race, households, families) plus biennial voting and registration data, 1984-1990, for cities and townships
- Registration and voting data by voting precinct, 1984-1990
- Data may be downloaded in zipped format or searched on line and cross-tabulated
- Reviewing the codebook (pdf or zipped format) is necessary to use the data
- Data results in SPSS, SAS, STATA, and sometimes ASCII formats
- United States
Electoral College (NARA)
- Electoral college laws and procedures
- State-by-state electoral college votes, 1789-2008
- 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
America (University of Richmond)
- Maps of presidential election results by county and party, 1840-2004
- Voter turnout and margins of victory
- There are maps for individual elections and cinematic maps that run through time, including events in history as well as election results
- Interactive maps take longer to load
- National Party Convention
Proceedings at the University of Michigan Library
- List of Democratic and Republican convention proceedings since 1832
- Refers to paper and microfilm call numbers and URLs as available
- Also includes notes for inter-library loan or the Vanderbilt Television Archive
- National Party Conventions
- Provides ballots for Presidential candidates and major rules, 1835-2004
- Doc Cen: JK 2255 .N3751
- America
Votes (Richard Scammon)
- Presidential primary results for all states holding primaries
appear at the front of the volume
- Presidential Elections Since 1789 (Doc. Cen. JK 524 .C746) consolidates presidential primary results for states holding them, 1912-1988
- Primary results for state offices are located on the last page of each state section
- Voter registration for presidential primaries begins in 1996 and appears at the front of each state
- Reference Room JK 1967 .A1 A68
- Two-year time lag between the general elections and publication date
- Related publication: America at the Polls, 1920-56 (Ref. JK 524 .G72 v.1) has county-level Presidential election results within each state section and Presidential preference primary results at the back of the book
- Presidential preference primary results by state for 1912 and 1916 appear in the front of the book
- Presidential primary results for all states holding primaries
appear at the front of the volume
- CQ
Voting and Elections
Collection (UMich Only)
- To find Presidential preference primary results since 1912, browse
under Presidential Elections and choose Presidential
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Caucuses by Year
- There is no caucus information and not all states hold presidential preference primaries
- The data can be copied and pasted into a spreadsheet but not downloaded using the feature on the side
- To find Presidential preference primary results since 1912, browse
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Caucuses by Year
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Election
Day Exit Polls (Roper Center - UMich Only)
- Numerous exit polls from presidential primaries
- May indicate which parties independent voters voted for
- Exit Polls (MSNBC) [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21660890/] updates the data for 2008
- STATE CAUCUS results for 2000,
2004,
and 2008 are
available via the The Green
Papers
- United States Presidential Primary Elections, 2000-2004
- Provides both primary and caucus results by county in 2000 and 2004
- Documents Center (JK 522 .C662 2007)
MIRLYN
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- In MIRLYN Web Advanced Searching, you don't need to know exact order (e.g. voting and united states or united states and voting)
- Keyword Searching
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- Excellent for current international topics
- Sample search: iran and revolutionary guard
- International
Political Science Abstracts, 1989+ (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)[http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=c135082&databases=IPSA]
- 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: Iran 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
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- 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 1900-2002
- Index approaches by keyword, author, title, periodical
- Easiest to download an article in pdf before viewing it
- Public
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- Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on politics and economics since 1915 in Western European languages
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- Sample Keyword Search: iran and nuclear weapon*
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- ProQuest
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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)
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campaign finance and (reform or bill? Or legislation) - Articles may be marked for downloading
- Social
Sciences Citation Index 1956- (UMich and Subscribing
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- 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
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- Use GET THIS link to determine if library has the article online, in paper, or can borrow on Inter-Library Loan
- Worldwide
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- Political science and complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy
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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
- Especially good for political news within the states
- 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) [http://library.cqpress.com/cqweekly/]
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Political party and election analysis; party platforms
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- Separate index for roll call votes beginning 1995
- Its annual compilation is available on the web, 1945-2006: Congressional Quarterly Almanac, (UMich Only) and Doc.Cen. JK 1 .C756--Ref.)
- CQ Politics
- Section on House, Senate and Gubernatorial races to watch in 2008
- Describes the political situation in each of the covered districts
- National Journal
Campaigns (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
- National Journal focuses on the politics of the Executive Branch with some reference to current legislation
- Its campaigns segment includes public opinion polls, political ads, and projected balance of power changes
- Presidential
Studies Quarterly (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
- Full text available since 1999 from Blackwell and since 1994 from Proquest
Newspapers [Web]
- Academic
Universe/Lexis (UMich and Subscribing Libraries Only)
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- Full text of newspapers for the United States and its major cities
- Time coverage varies but may extend to 20 years
- 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
- Lexis Academic (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
- As of 11/13/07, the map projects safe Republican and Democrat House Seats
- Issues since 1989 also available through Lexis Congressional (UMich Only)
- USA Today
- Daily articles on news, sports, weather and finances
- Archival file of the top news stories
- Includes section on 2008 elections
- 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
- Articles since 1977 also available through Newsbank
- World News
Connection (UMich and Subscribing Libraries 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
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