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History 260: Historical Methods (Election Edition) - Library Research Guide and Bibliography
Candidates
Please note that 2004 candidates from many other parties (along with write-in candidates) can be found on the Politics1 web site.
- George W. Bush (official campaign site)
- President Bush's official campaign web site, not to be confused with the official White House site of the President. The Bush campaign also maintains an official campaign blog site.
http://www.georgewbush.com/
- John F. Kerry (official campaign site)
- Official Kerry-Edwards campaign web site. The Kerry campaign also maintains an official campaign blog site.
http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html
- Ralph Nader (official campaign site)
- Official Nader campaign web site.
http://www.votenader.org/
Current Election News
- Broadcast Media Links:
- ABC News: Politics
- Bloomberg.com: U.S. Elections News
- CBS News: Politics and Campaign 2004 Coverage
- CNN.com's Election 2004 News
- C-SPAN.org: Election 2004
- Fox News Channel (select "You Decide 2004" links for election stories)
- MSNBC News: Politics Front Page
- PBS NewsHour: Vote 2004
- National Public Radio: Elections
- Print Media Links: News From the Top 20 Newspapers (measured by largest reported circulation) - for more high-circulation newspapers, see the Audit Bureau of Circulation's "Top 150 Daily Newspapers" page). PLEASE NOTE that most of these newspapers (with reasonably good full-text backfiles) are available online through the Lexis-Nexis Academic database.
- USA Today: Campaign 2004
- Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest) (the WSJ is not free on the web)
- New York Times (registration required for access to current content on the web)
- Los Angeles Times: Election 2004 (registration required for access to current content on the web)
- Washington Post (registration required for access to current content on the web)
- Chicago Tribune (registration required for access to current content on the web)
- New York Daily News
- Denver Post / Rocky Mountain News
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Dallas Morning News (registration required for access to current content on the web)
- Houston Chronicle
- Detroit News / Detroit Free Press
- Boston Globe
- New York Post
- Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Long Island Newsday
- Atlanta Journal Constitution (registration required for access to current content on the web)
- Newark Star-Ledger (registration required for access to current content on the web)
- Arizona Republic
- San Francisco Chronicle
Election Blogs
- Election Blog Roundup (from Yahoo! News)
- Easy-to-navigate selection of weblogs focused on the 2004 election runs the ideological and partisan gamut. Yahoo! states that its "goal is to aggregate a diverse selection of political blogs and let you sample a variety of opinions as election season heats up."
http://news.yahoo.com/electionsblog
- Politics Attention IndexTM
- Developed by Technorati, Inc., the Politics Attention Index tracks hot topics in political blogging and which bloggers are receiving the most attention. The Index is continuously updated and tracks the rising and falling popularity of links from political bloggers during any 12-hour period. The site can also be searched by topic, journalist, or weblog.
http://politics.technorati.com
- Politics.Feedster.com
- A political weblog index, Politics.Feedster.com offers searchable access to the content of over 850,000 indexed feeds. The quality of the various weblogs can be extremely uneven, but this is a good tool for identifying potentially interesting material related to election campaigns and politics.
http://politics.feedster.com
Election/Campaign Finance
- Federal Election Commission (FEC)
- The statistics available at the FEC's site fall into two general categories: (1) those dealing with voting and voter registration, and (2) those dealing with the financing of elections. Voter turnout and registration statistics are available back to 1960, although the earliest data is not very detailed. Campaign finance reports and data based on legally required disclosures and filings are available for federal elections to the 1996 campaigns. The fundraising activities of political parties and political action committees are also provided for 1995 to the present.
http://www.fec.gov/
- opensecrets.org
- opensecrets.org is a project of the the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The site provides easy access to campaign finance data for every member of Congress. You can search by politician, donor, state, zip code, industry or interest group. All of the data is taken from public records (e.g., reports filed with the Federal Election Commission).
http://www.opensecrets.org/
Historical Data on Elections and Voting
- National Election Studies
- Based at the University of Michigan, this "site provides summary tables for NES studies from 1952-1966 along numerous dimensions such as the social and religious characteristics of the electorate, partisanship and attitudes about political parties, ideological self-identification, public opinion on policy issues, support for the political system, political involvement, evaluation of congressional and presidential candidates, and vote choice." The site also provides several data sets for elections back to 1948 and many reports providing analyses of data. [Choice]
http://www.umich.edu/~nes/
Political Action Committees, Interest Groups, and Lobbying Organizations
Political Parties
Public Opinion and Polling Data
- Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004
- Interesting site maps likely electoral vote distribution based on current polling data. Changes with each new survey of polling data.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
- PollingReport.com: White House 2004
- Current polling data collected from major media and public opinion research organizations.
http://www.pollingreport.com/wh2004.htm
Scholarly Research on Elections: Historical and Contemporary
- America: History and Life
- This database provides the most comprehensive access to the scholarly journal literature on American history, and it also indexes book and media reviews, book chapters, and dissertations. Topical coverage includes research on elections in general, congressional elections, federal elections, gubernatorial and mayoral elections, presidential elections, and other election topics. Please note that access to this database is restricted to currently enrolled students, faculty and staff.
- Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Voting and Elections Collection
- Contains data, analyses, and historical material about the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships. Best for the years after 1967. Please note that online access to this database is restricted to currently enrolled students, faculty and staff.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international journal literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public policy. Over 440,000 records cover articles from more than 1,400 periodical titles, with coverage from 1975 to the present. Please note that access to this database is restricted to currently enrolled students, faculty and staff.
Web Sites With Election Themes
- DemocracyNet (Congress.org)
- DemocracyNet (DNet) is an interactive website designed to improve the quality and quantity of voter information and create a more educated and involved electorate. A project of the League of Women Voters Education Fund, DNet encourages candidates to address a wider range of issues, and to address those in greater depth, than they might in other media. The site can be used to locate candidate information, follow debates, learn about ballot measures, and access voting information. Covers national, state, and local elections.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/e4/?
- e-democracy's Election 2004 Page
- E-Democracy.Org is a project of Minnesota E-Democracy, a non-partisan citizen-based organization whose mission is to improve participation in democracy in Minnesota through the use of information networks. It's Election 2004 pages are a non-profit, non-partisan starting place for elections 2004 information, announcements, news and discussions.
http://www.e-democracy.org/us/
- Elections Resources (from Political Science Resources on the Web)
- Well-organized link collection on current and recent election campaigns maintained by the University of Michigan Documents Center.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psusp.html#elec
- Project Vote Smart
- Nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded by the Center for National Independence in Politics (Corvallis, OR), Project Vote Smart's web site contains comprehensive and current information about election issues, campaigns, and candidates in both federal and state elections. Most candidate profiles include voting records, positions on selected issues, biographical details, campaign finance data, and performance ratings coompiled by major political interest groups. The information is compiled by a broad network of volunteers and student interns.
http://www.vote-smart.org
- Voting Rights Issues (American Civil Liberties Union)
- This section of the ACLU's web site covers some of the major conteporary voting rights issues, including ballot access and the Motor Voter Law, campaign financing reform, election reform, ex-offenders, minority voting rights, and redistricting. ACLU press releases, legislative and legal documents, and other online resources can be found for most issues.
http://www.aclu.org/VotingRights/VotingRightsMain.cfm
Maintained by Richard Kearney, Electronic Resources Librarian
Update: 9/8/04 9:10:02 AM
