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Current News

Commission on Presidential Debates Schedule, moderators, debate format.

CQ Weekly Report 1983+ ChRiv; BUSL

CNN Inside Politics: America Votes 2004

Project Vote Smart

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe years vary (full-text*) BU-px
Newspapers, trade journals, wire services and transcripts of broadcasts.
*Wall Street Journal is indexed, not full-text.

Political parties in American history.   Putnam,1974.  3 vol. set: v. 1. 1789-1828.--v. 2. 1828-1890.--v. 3. 1890-present
Mugar JK2261 .B47

Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties.  Scarecrow Press, 2000.
Mugar JK2261 .B345 2000

National Party Conventions, 1831-2000. CQ Press, 2001.
Mugar Reference X JK 2255 .N373 2001

Bain, Richard C. and Judith H. Parris. Convention Decisions and Voting Records. Brookings Institution, 1973.

Mugar Reference XJK 2255 .B3 1973 also Law Annex

Johnson, Donald Bruce. National Party Platforms, 1840-1956; 1960-1976; 1980.

Mugar JK 2255 .J64

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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - present.

 

Biography and Genealogy Master Index BU-px

 

LexisNexis Congressional BU-px  Choose "Members" from menu. Also

LexisNexis Academic Universe Biographical Information BU-px

Congressional Directory also print?

Biography.com

 

Almanac of American Politics.Barone and Co., 1972 - .

Mugar Reference Desk X JK271 .B343

CQ's Politics in America. CQ Press.
Mugar Reference Desk X JK 1012 C63

 

Congressional Quarterly's Candidates '96: Profiles of Presidential Candidates. Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly Inc., c1996.

 

Federal Election Commission (FEC): Campaign Finance Reports and Data

Financial disclosure reports from 1993 to the present. Data on 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996 elections.

FEC : Pacronyms. Full PAC name, city and state, FEC I.D. number, and the name of its sponsoring, connected, or affiliated organization.

Brookings Institute - Campaign Finance

esp. The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook (2004)

Campaign Finance Information Center

LexisNexis Congressional - Members

Campaign Finance	Retrieve reports all candidates file with the Federal Election Commission
Financial Disclosures	Retrieve information about a member's finances
Campaign Contributions	Find out which people, companies and organizations have contributed to a campaign

Opensecrets.org Center for Responsive Politics.

see esp. Advocacy Group and  Think Tank Resources

Project Vote Smart

Fundrace 2004 Neighborhood search; map.

Political Money Line  PACs identified.

Campaign Finance Institute

Campaign Finance Guide Good historical overview from the Campaign Legal Center.

 

Financial Disclosure Reports of Members of the U.S. House of

Representatives of the...[House Document].

Use the CIS Index to locate the House Document numbers of earlier volumes.

Report of the Secretary of the Senate. [Senate Document].

Use the CIS Index to locate the Senate Document numbers of earlier volumes.

 

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American Presidency Project - Presidential Elections Data 1828+

 

Federal Election Commission - Downloadable Data about Candidates and Committees; also Elections and Voting

US Presidential Election Maps: 1860-1996 Reformatted data from ICPSR Study # 7757.

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Election Statistics 1920+
"Since 1920, the Clerk of the House has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories. " (from the site)

American National Election Studies 1948+  Time series data.

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections

Federal Elections Project - 2000 Election Data By State.  Massachusetts spreadsheet download contains precinct federal general election results for all but two towns: Ayer and Stoughton.

The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990 (ROAD) " Record Of American Democracy (ROAD) data include election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation. The NSF-supported ROAD project covers every state in the country from 1984 through 1990 (including some off-year elections). " (from the site)

American national election studies, 1948-1997 [electronic resource] / produced jointly by National Election Studies and Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. The Consortium, c1998.
Mugar Reserve Room JK1967 .A835 1998 CD-ROM

America Votes. CQ Press. Annual. Library has V.1, 1956-present.
Mugar Reference XJK1967 .F56

America at the polls...CQ Press..

Vol 1. Harding to Eisenhower, 1920 - 1956

Vol. 2. Kennedy to Clinton, 1960 - 1992
Mugar Reference XJK524 .F65  

1960-2000 John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush. CQ Press, c2001.   Mugar Reference XJK524 .M33 2001  

Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Elections. CQ Press, 2001.

2 vols. Mugar Reference XJK1967 .C662 2001

Miller, Warren E. American National Election Studies Data Sourcebook, 1952 - 1986. Harvard University Press, 1989.

Mugar Reference XJK1967 .M54 1989

Stanley, Harold W. Vital Statistics on American Politics. CQ Press, 2001.

Mugar Reference XJK274 .S74 2001

A Statistical History of the American Electorate. CQ Press, 2001.

Mugar Reference XJK 1967 R87 2001

American governors and gubernatorial elections, 1775-1978. compiled by Roy R. Glashan. Meckler Books, c1979.

Mugar Reference X JK2447 .G53

LexisNexis Congressional

Includes voting records in Congress from 1988- present; Key Votes in Congress from 1987- present.

House Roll Call Votes 1990+

 

Senate Roll Call Votes1989+ Choose Legislation & Records, then Votes.

 

U.S. Congress. Congressional Record (through gpoaccess.gov)

 

See also: CQ Weekly, which has listings of recent House and Senate votes, and the CQ ... almanac plus ( Mugar Reference XJK 1 F451) , which has a separate appendix covering roll call votes.

 

Annual Rating of Congress - American Conservative Union Includes ratings back to 1971.

National Freedom Scorecard - ACLU

 

National Environmental Scorecard - League of Conservation Voter

 

Campaign Advertising

ALLPolitics Ad Archive (older ad campaigns)

C-Span Election Pages - Campaign Advertisements

PoliticsUS.com - Campaign Ads

Campaign 2004: Ad Archive (Political Communication Lab at Stanford University)

Factcheck.org Provides transcripts of ads and analysis of divergence from fact.

PBS - The :30 Second Candidate

Air wars : television advertising in election campaigns, 1952-2000. Darrell M. West. CQ Press, c2001.
Mugar JF2112.A4 W47 2001    

Air wars : television advertising in election campaigns, 1952-1996 / Darrell M. West. Congressional Quarterly, c1997.
Mugar JF2112.A4 W47 1997 

Political campaign communication : a bibliography and guide to the literature, 1973-1982 / by Lynda Lee Kaid and Anne Wadsworth.   Scarecrow Press, 1985.
Mugar Reference X Z7164.R4 K34 1985

Election Laws and Historic Documents

The FEC and the Federal Campaign Finance Law

Campaign Finance Guide Good historical overview from the Campaign Legal Center.

Historic Documents on Presidential Elections, 1787-1988. CQ Press, 1991.

Mugar Reference X JK 1965 .H56 1991

NARA Federal Register - U.S. Electoral College

Bibliographies and Indexes

America: History and Life 1964+ BU-px

Congressional Quarterly Researcher ChRiv

LexisNexis Academic BU-px

LexisNexis Congressional BU-px

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) 1972+ BU-px

Social Sciences Full Text 1995+ (abstracts 1983+) BU-px; cross-search with
Readers' Guide Full Text 1994+ (abstracts 1983+)

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts BU-px

ABI/Inform 1970+  BU (PARTIAL FULL-TEXT )
esp. articles on ad campaigns; also Business Source Premier 1965+ BU-px

Handbooks, Atlases, Encyclopedias, Directories and Dictionaries

 

 

Combined Federal/State  Disclosure and Election Directory  2004

Census 2000 Public Law 94-171 Voting District/State Legislative District Outline Maps . Choose the online link and choose Massachusetts for county/precinct maps.  Use these maps with the spreadsheet at Federal Elections Project - 2000 Election Data By State to chart how each precinct voted.

My Election Information (Massachusetts) Elected State Officials, Representatives, and polling place provided by entering address.

CQ ... almanac plus. Congressional Quarterly, 1948 - .
Mugar Reference XJK 1 F451

FEC : Pacronyms. Full PAC name, city and state, FEC I.D. number, and the name of its sponsoring, connected, or affiliated organization.

Elections A to Z. Congressional Quarterly, 1999.

Mugar Reference XJK1976 .M57 1999

 

How to Research Elections. CQ Press, c2000.

Mugar Reference X Z7164.R4 M37 2000

 

CQ's Guide to the U.S. Elections. CQ Press, 2001. 2 vols.

Mugar Reference X JK1967 .C662 2001

 

The Electoral Politics Dictionary. ABC-Clio, 1989.

Mugar Reference XJK 1971 .R46 1989

United States. Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Congressional District Atlas. 103rd Congress of the United States. 2 vols.

Mugar Reference XG1201.F7 U45 1993