Campaigns & Elections

U.S. Government Documents Campaigns & Elections
Background Information	Political Parties	Campaign 2008	Campaign 2006 & Prior	Campaign Finances/Election Reform
Congressional Voting Records	Election Results	Media & Politics	Political Polling Resources

This is a selective guide to resources at Columbia University Libraries and on the Internet, for conducting research on federal campaigns and elections. Most of the items included are available in Lehman Library, either in the U.S. Government Documents collection, lehman, or the Lehman stacks. For other locations and titles, check CLIO.
Prior to 1976, U.S. Federal government documents are mostly located in Butler Library and can be located through the Butler Card Catalog.

Background Information Resources

Almanac of American Politics. Annual. 1974-: JK 271 .A43 - Lehman; Particularly useful for the state-by-state, district-by-district analysis and commentary.
Bott, Alexander J.: Handbook of United States Election Laws and Practices.; KF 4749 .B625 1990 - Lehman
American Presidential Campaigns and Elections. 3 vols.: Armonk, N.Y. : Sharpe Reference, c2003.; JK 1965 .A57 2003 - Lehman
The Campaign Disclosure Law Database: This collection of statutes, regulations and forms allows users to view and compare the disclosure laws in 50 states, DC and the federal government. The database is divided into 25 categories and 105 subcategories, and includes information on topics as diverse as contributor information, loans to campaigns, electronic filing, enforcement rules and independent expenditures.
Campaign Finance Institute: The Campaign Finance Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit institute, affiliated with The George Washington University, that conducts objective research and education, empanels task forces and makes recommendations for policy change in the field of campaign finance. Separate sections provide coverage of the president, Congress, disclosure, interest groups, and parties.
Campaign Speeches of American Presidential Candidates, 1928-1972.: New York : Ungar, c1976.; E 743 .C235 - Butler
Campaign Speeches of American Presidential Candidates, 1948-1984.: New York : Ungar, c1985.; E 743 .C236 1985 - Butler
CampaignMoney.com: Get all your campaign finance info here about people giving and candidates receiving in national politics. Search for contributors, political action committees, candidates, and lobbyists.
Center for Voting and Democracy: A non profit educational organization which educates the public about the impact of voting systems on political representation, proportional representation, voter turnout, and the influence of money in elections.
Coleman, Kevin J.: Presidential Elections in the United States : a Primer.; Huntington, NY : Novinka Books, c2001.; JK 528 .C654 2001g - Lehman
Commission on Presidential Debates: Face-to-face presidential debates in the 20th century began their broadcast history in 1948. Republicans Thomas Dewey and Harold Stassen faced each other in a radio debate during the Oregon Republican presidential primary. This site presents the full text of debates from 1960, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. There is also much supplementary material relating to Presidential debates.
The Concise Encyclopedia of Ethics in Politics and the Media.: San Diego : Academic Press, c2001.; PN 4756 .C66 2001g - Lehman; Contains chapters on Campaign Journalism and Election Strategies.
CQ.com: CQ.com is a compehensive legislative information system, provided by Congressional Quarterly.; Provides access to full text of: Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report. 1969-; JK 1 C15 - Lehman
CQ Voting and Elections Collection: Integrates data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a research and reference tool on voting and elections in America. From the American voter, to major and minor political parties, to actual races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships, the collection provides context-driven intelligence on the state of elections in America. Chronological coverage varies by office. Presidential coverage begins 1789. Election data can be downloaded.
Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections. 4th ed. 2 vols..: Washington, DC : CQ Press, : 2001.; JK 1967 .C662 2001 - Lehman
CRS Full Text: Search for the full text of all Congressional Research Service Reports, 1916-present. Use terms such as "campaign finance," "elections" or provided subject terms.
Election Data Services: Election Data Services Inc. is a political consulting firm specializing in redistricting, election administration, and the analysis and presentation of census and political data with GIS (geographic information systems).; 2006 Voting Equipment Study, with links to earlier reports
Encyclopedia of American Parties, Campaigns, and Elections.: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.; JK 9 .B56 1999 - Lehman
Encyclopedia of Interest Groups and Lobbyists in the United States. 2 vols.: Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, c2000.; JK 1118 .N47 2000 - Lehman
Government Accountability Office: Reports on U.S. Elections, 2000-present
Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet
Martin, Fenton S.: How to Research Elections.; Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2000.; Z 7164 .R4 M37 2000 - Lehman
National Political Index: a site with comprehensive political links
opensecrets.org: Opensecrets.org is the web site for the Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that specializes in the study of Congress and particularly the role that money plays in its elections and actions. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and other interested observers of Congress. The Center's databases are available for searching at its site.
PoliticsOnline: Internet tools for politics
Public Citizen: a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization created to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts
Renstrom, Peter G.: The Electoral Politics Dictionary.; Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c1989.; JK 1971 .R46 1989 - Lehman
Rusk, Jerrold G.: A Statistical History of the American Electorate.; Washington, DC : CQ Press, 2001.; JK 1967 .R87 2001 - Lehman
Sabato, Larry.: Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections; New York : Facts On File, c2006.; JK 2261 .S218 2006 - Lehman
U.S. Electoral College: The National Archives and Records Administration's Electoral College Home Page. The Office of the Federal Register coordinates the functions of the Electoral College on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, the States, the Congress, and the American People. They have assembled a variety of information and statistics on presidential elections, past and present.
U.S. Federal Election Commission: Law and Regulations; Campaign Finance Reports and Data; View or download financial disclosure reports filed electronically by House and Presidential Campaigns, Parties and PACs.
Vote For Me: Politics in America: A companion web site to the PBS television show.
Voting And Registration: Information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics is collected for the nation in November of congressional and presidential election years in the Current Population Survey (CPS). Detailed information from recent surveys and historical trends in selected areas is listed. Projections of the voting-age population by age, race, Hispanic origin, and gender derived from administrative data are also produced every other year in anticipation of the elections.

U.S. Political Parties

Bass, Harold Franklin.: Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties.; Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2000.; JK 2261 .B345 2000 - Lehman
Political Parties: Brief descriptions, contact information, and web sites for political parties in the U.S., large and small, from Project Vote Smart.
Kruschke, Earl R.: Encyclopedia of Third Parties in the United States.; JK 2261 .K78 1991 - Lehman
Kurian, George Thomas.: The Encyclopedia of the Republican Party ; The Encyclopedia of the Democratic Party. 4 vols.; Armonk, N.Y. : Sharpe Reference, c1997.; R329.973 K96 - Butler Reference
National Party Conventions, 1831-2000.: Washington, DC : CQ Press, c2001.; R324.73 N21311 - Butler Reference
Political Parties and Elections in the United States: an Encyclopedia. 2 vols. 1991.: JK 2261 . P633 1991 - Lehman
Sabato, Larry.: Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections; New York : Facts On File, c2006.; JK 2261 .S218 2006 - Lehman
Schapsmeier, Edward L.: Political Parties and Civic Action Groups. 1981.; Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1981.; JK 2260 .S36 - lehman

General Campaign Resources

Campaign 2008 Resources

Blog4President 2008
The Buying of the President 2008: The Center for Public Integrity's quadrennial investigation of how money shapes presidential campaigns.
C-SPAN's Campaign Network
Campaign 2008, from the Council on Foreign Relations: Includes Issue Trackers, Interviews, CFR Analysis Briefs, Debate Transcripts, mostly with a foreign policy slant.
Campaign 2008: Road to the White House, from C-SPAN
Campaign for America: 2008 Election: Learn about the 2008 Presidential election candidates with profiles from Reader's Digest and a breakdown of the campaign's most important issues.
Candidate Views: This series of charts, compiled by Brookings Institution experts, outline the candidates' positions on the most critical topics facing America's next President. The topics were chosen by Brookings staff and the indices will be published throughout the 2008 Presidential election cycle. Topics include: Iraq, health care,immigration, climate change, and trade.
The Caucus, political blogging from the New York Times
Channel '08: the 2008 Election on Video, from the Washington Post and PrezVid.com
Election 2008, stories and information from National Public Radio
Fundraising Central: Majority of Presidential Bundlers and Other Fundraisers Hail from Only Five U.S. Industries: Lawyers and Law Firms, Three Finance Industries, and Real Estate, a report from the Campaign Finance Institute and Public Citizen on the 2008 presidential candidates
Health08.org: Election News, Analysis and Events
The Internet and the 2008 Election: A record-breaking 46% of Americans have used the internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the campaign, share their views and mobilize others; from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
The Invisible Primary, Invisible No Longer: a First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign: A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
The League of Women Voters: Election Day 2008
OpenSecrets.org: Election 2008 Overview: Stats at a Glance
Opportunity 08: Opportunity 08, from the Brookings Institution, aims to help presidential candidates and the public focus on critical issues facing the nation, providing ideas, policy forums and information on a broad range of domestic and foreign policy questions.
Oval Office 2008: an impartial blog on the next U.S. presidential election
The Trail: a Daily Diary of Campaign 2008, from the Washington Post
White House for Sale: A web site that provides an up-to-date listing of the 2008 presidential hopefuls’ “bundlers,” the super-fundraisers who are powering the billion-dollar race for the White House. The data is compiled by Public Citizen.
YouChoose '08: Videos of the candidates who appeared on YouTube.

Campaign 2006 Resources

AllPolitics: from CNN and Time
CJR Daily: Politics: Critique and analysis of 2006 campaign coverage from Columbia Journalism Review.
CampaignSearch: CampaignSearch.com uses complex spoken-language-analysis software created by StreamSage to automatically identify sections of audio/video news and speeches from major media outlets, by keywords.
CampaignSearch
Election 2006, the Washington Post: A non-partisan political information website, with sections on Current Events, Features, Magazines, News, Polls
New York, from Politics1: "Your complete directory of New York candidates for Governor, United State Senator and Congress in the current election cycle ... state political parties ... the official state election office ... and state news sources."
The New York Times 2006 Election Guide: Information on Senate, House and Governors' races, with interactive maps!
PollingReport.com: Election 2006
Project Vote Smart: Tracks the performance of over 13,000 political leaders: President, Congress, Governors, State Legislatures

Previous Campaign Resources

Election 2004 Web Archive
Election 2002 Web Archive: The Election 2002 Web Archive is a selective collection of nearly 4,000 sites archived between July 1, 2002 and November 30, 2002. The initial March 4th, 2003 release of the Election 2002 Web Archive includes web sites produced by congressional and gubernatorial candidates. Future releases will include party, interest group, press, government, civic, and other selective web sites related to the 2002 national and statewide elections. Additional materials will be made available as the collection is processed for long-term preservation. Created by the Library of Congress.
Election 2000 Web Archive: The Election 2000: an Internet Library is a selective collection of nearly 800 sites archived daily between August 1, 2000 and January 21, 2001, covering the United States national election period.
Campaign Web Review: A biweekly newsletter examining the use of the Internet by political candidate and initiative campaigns in the 1998 election cycle
So You Want to Buy a President?: the full transcript of the Frontline program broadcast on January 30, 1996

Campaign Finances & Electoral Reform

Almanac of Federal PACs. Biennial. 1988/90-: JK 1991 .A744 - Lehman
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001: Adverse Report Together with Minority Views, to Accompany H.R. 2356: Committee Report 107-31, Committee on House Administration, July 10, 2001
Brennan Center Campaign Finance Reform: This project, from the Brennan Center at New York University School of Law, seeks to strike a balance between the need for candidates to raise sufficient funds, and other interest, such as ensuring that elected officials are not unduly influenced by donors.; Buyingtime.org: a database of televised political advertising by candidates, parties, and interest groups.
Brookings Institution Campaign Finance: A site with lots of information: analysis and news, and also the source of essential cases, legal and policy materials on campaign finance.; Campaign Finance Reform: a Sourcebook.
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, c1997.
JK 1991 .C345 1997 - Lehman
Campaign Finance Information Center: The Campaign Finance Information Center is dedicated to helping journalists follow the campaign money trail -- on the national, state and local levels.
Campaign Financing, Congressional Research Service, December 15, 2003
Center for Responsive Politics: opensecrets.org: the online source for money in politics data; Congressional and Presidential Campaign Finance Profiles; Donor Lookup
Find individual and soft money contributors, back to the 1990 election cycle.
On this site you'll find current numbers on races in every state and congressional district in the nation. You can compare the candidates by the size and source of their contributions, the industries and interest groups that are supporting them, where the money is coming from geographically, and much more.; Influence, Inc.: the Bottom Line on Washington Lobbying
This is the Center's third annual lobbying report, providing year-to-year comparisons of lobbying spending on Capitol Hill. It provides the most revealing picture yet of the industries and interest groups that fund and deploy the army of lobbyists that constitute Washington's $1.45 billion influence industry.; Out-of-State Money in Congressional Elections: Trends in 1990-1994 and Policy Issues: a Congressional Research Service Report.; Personal Financial Disclosure Reports
Includes reports for all members of Congress and several presidential politicans.
Election Reform Legislation Database: A sophisticated database which allow searching by state for election reform legislation by specific subtopics, 2001-present.
Electionline.org: electionline.org, a project of the Pew Center on the States, is the nation�s only nonpartisan, non-advocacy Web site providing up-to-the-minute news and analysis on election reform.
Federal Commission on Election Reform (Carter-Baker Commission): Final Report: Building Confidence in U.S. Elections, September 19, 2005
Federal Election Commission: Online text about Federal election law; financial info on the candidates, parties, and PACs; news releases.; Campaign Finance Reports and Data; Campaign Guide for Congressional Candidates and Committees, 2007; Campaign Guide for Political Party Committees, 2007; Combined Federal/State Disclosure and Election Directory; FEC Reports on Financial Activity. Biennial. 1983/84-; Y 3.El 2/3:15/ - U.S. Government Documents
Financing the 2000 Election: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2002.; JK 1991 .F568 2002 - Lehman
Follow the Money: A web companion to the PBS series, examining the finances of American politics, including transcripts and audio of Congressional hearings.
Fritz, Sara.: Handbook of Campaign Spending: Money in the 1990 Congressional Races.; JK 1991 .F75 1992 - Lehman
Hoover Institution Public Policy Inquiry: Campaign Finance: A variety of resources on the background and history of campaign finance and reform.
Internal Revenue Service: Tax Information for Political Organizations: Political parties, campaign committees for candidates for federal, state, or local office, and political action committees are all political organizations subject to tax under 527. A new law (P.L. 106-230) imposes three different reporting and disclosure requirements on section 527 organizations. The requirements and the filings can be searched.
Makinson, Larry.: Open Secrets: the Encyclopedia of Congressional Money and Politics. 4th ed.; Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, c1996.; JK 1991 .M26 1996 - Lehman
McCain Campaign Reform
Morris, Dwight.: Handbook of Campaign Spending: Money in the 1992 Congressional Races.; Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, 1994.; JK 1991 .M78 1994 - Lehman
The Mother Jones 400: The top 400 campaign contributors for 2000 -- search or browse by rank, industry, state, party, or recipient, and compare to the 1998 contributions.
National Commission on Federal Election Reform: Final Report, August 2001
National Institute on Money in State Politics: "The independent source of information on campaign contributions in state politics for reporters, researchers and the general public." The site includes links to special reports and the Follow the Money database, which allows users to determine the names and contribution amounts of specific individuals, businesses, or political interest groups who have invested in statewide elections from 1990 to the present.
PoliticalMoneyLine: Search several databases by candidate, donor, PACs & parties, 527 filers, and foreign agents.
Public Agenda Online: Campaign Finance Issue Guide
Public Campaign: Clean Money, Clean Elections: A non-profit group advocating campaign reform, featuring the "Golden Leash Award"s, the successor to former Senator William Proxmire's Golden Fleece Award , and other campaign reports and resources
Public Interest Profiles.: Washington, D.C. : Foundation for Public Affairs, 1986/87-; JK 1118 .P8 - Lehman
Washington Representatives.: Washington, Columbia Books, 1979-; JK 1118 .W38 - Lehman; A compilation of Washington representatives of the major national associations, labor unions and U.S. companies; registered foreign agents; lobbyists; lawyers; law firms; and special interest groups, together with their clients and areas of legislative and regulatory concern.

Congressional Voting Records

Bosnich, Victor W.: Congressional Voting Guide: a Ten Year compilation. 4th ed. 1992.; Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson Co., 1992.; JK 1051 .B67 1992 - Lehman
CQ Floor Votes, from Congressional Quarterly: Check the voting records for Senators and Representatives back to 1991.
Congressional Roll Call. Annual.: Washington, Congressional Quarterly, inc., 1969-; JK 1 .C6635 - Lehman; JK 1 .C6635 - Latest Volume in Butler Reference
National Environmental Scorecard: From the League of Conservation Voters, a bipartisan political arm of the environmental movement; Congressional scorecards 1993-present.
National Freedom Scorecard: from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Public Interest Research Groups Congressional Scorecards (1996-present)
Project Vote Smart:: • Voting Records: 104th Congress to present; • Interest Group Ratings: ratings by dozens of special interest groups, across the political spectrum
Sharp, J. Michael.: The Directory of Congressional Voting Scores and Interest Group Ratings. 2 vols. 3rd ed.; Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, c2000.; JK 1051 .S555 2000 - Lehman
Voters Telecommunications Watch: An interest group which evaluates candidates based on their stands on telecommunications issues.
Voter Information Services, Inc.: Voting records for members of Congress, and ratings of members of Congress based on their votes on legislation supported or opposed by over 20 special interest/lobbying groups

Election Results & Statistics

America at the Polls, 1960-2000 John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush: a Handbook of American Presidential Election Statistics. 2 vols.: Washington, DC : Congressional Quarterly, 2001.; JK 524 .A73 2001 - Lehman
America Votes: a Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics. Biennial.: Washington, DC : Congressional Quarterly, 1956-.; JK 1967 .A8 - Lehman
American National Election Studies: Produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.
Atlas of United States Presidential Elections: 1932-1996.: Richmond, VA : Klipsan Press, 1997.; JK 1967 .M55 1997g
Cook, Rhodes.: United States Presidential Primary Elections, 1968-1996 : a Handbook of Election Statistics.; Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2000.; R324.73 C773 - Butler Reference
Dubin, Michael J.: United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997 : the Official Results of the Elections of the 1st Through 105th Congresses.; Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1998.; R328.73 D85 - Butler Reference
Dubin, Michael J.: United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860 : the Official Results by County and State.; Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2002.; R324.73 Un33 - Butler Reference
Election Data Book: a Statistical Portrait of Voting in America.: Lanham, Md. : Bernan Press, 1992.; JK 524 .E43 - Lehman
Historic Documents on Presidential Elections, 1787-1988.: Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, 1991.; JK 1965 .H56 1991 - Lehman; Includes 70 items from party platforms, speeches, debates, newspaper articles and broadsides, third parties, constitutional origins & developments, etc.
Historical Voting Tables: Congressional Elections: Statistics of various kinds for Congressional elections, 1966-1996, from the U.S. Census Bureau
A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825
Presidential Elections, 1789-2004.: Washington, DC : CQ Press, c2006.; R324.73 P926 - Butler Reference
The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990 (ROAD): A massive new aggregate data set on American politics is now available. The 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). One collection of data sets includes every election at and above State House, along with party registration and other variables, in each state for the roughly 170,000 precincts nationwide (about 60 times the number of counties). Another collection has added to these (roughly 30-40) political variables an additional 3,725 variables merged from the 1990 U.S. Census for 47,327 aggregate units (about 15 times the number of counties) about the size one or more cities or towns. These units completely tile the U.S. landmass. This collection also includes geographic boundary files so users can easily draw maps with these data.
Thomas, G. Scott.: The Pursuit of the White House: a Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History.; New York : Greenwood Press, 1987.; JK 524 .T44 1987 - Lehman
U.S. Electoral College:: Historical Election Results: View the electoral votes, popular votes, electors, and certificates of past presidential elections, 1788-2004.
U.S. Federal Election Commission: Federal Elections: 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006; This biennial publication from the Federal Election Commission provides an accurate, historical record of federal election results, including primary, runoff and general elections. Color maps, bar graphs and summary charts are also included to illustrate the data.
U.S. House of Representatives. Office of the Clerk.: Election Information; Official vote counts for federal elections from 1920 to the present.
Voting America: U.S. Politics, 1840-2008: Voting America offers a wide spectrum of cinematic and interactive visualizations of how Americans voted in presidential elections at the county level over the last 164 years.
Voting and Registration: Information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics is collected for the nation in November of congressional and presidential election years in the Current Population Survey (CPS). 1994 and 1996 are available. Projections of the voting-age population by age, race, Hispanic origin, and gender derived from administrative data are also produced every other year in anticipation of the elections. 1996 and 1998 projections are available. There are also Historical Time Series Tables for 1964-1996.

Media & Politics

Atlantic Unbound: Politics: The emphasis at this site is on analysis; the major area is The Issues, which contains fulltext articles from past issues on Abortion, Budget, Congress, Crime, Defense, Economy, Education, Environment, Family, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Immigration, Politics, Poverty, Race, and Religion.
Campaigns & Elections. Monthly.: Washington, D.C., Campaigns & Elections Pub. Corp., 1984-; JK 1976 .C61 - Lehman
C-SPAN Online
CNN Interactive
EC: the U.S. Electoral College Web Zine
The Patriot Post: the Conservative Journal of Record: Requires a free subscription to access the full text.
Freedom Forum Online
Mother Jones
National Journal. Weekly. 1981-: JK 1 .N28 - Lehman
National Review. Weekly. 1955-: 051 N214 - Butler; current issues in Periodicals Reading Room; The web site includes selected material from the current issue, including fulltext of the lead article and columns, plus info exclusive to the web site.
The New Republic. Weekly. 1948- .: 051 N473 - Butler; current issues in Periodicals Reading Room
The Rhodes Cook Letter: The Rhodes Cook Letter tracks election results for president, Congress and the nation's governorships--in terms of primaries, general elections, and even special elections when they occur. But each issue goes beyond the basics to provide a distinctive analysis of the American political scene - with texts, maps and a variety of other colorful graphics that seek to put current elections into a broader historical context.
Roll Call Online: Web version of the "newspaper of Capitol Hill", including News, Opinion, Politics, Vested Interests, Around the Hill, Congressional Clearinghouse, and Special Features.
Slate: The first truly on-line journal of political and social commentary, from Microsoft.

Political Polling Resources

Many of the sites in the previous section, Campaign Resources, conduct their own polls of Internet users. Most of them are very limited in scope and questionable in terms of the size and demographics of their samples. The resources in this section represent many of the "standard" national polling organizations.

American Public Opinion Index. Annual.

Louisville, KY : Opinion Research Service, 1981-

HM 261 .A463 - Offsite

R312 A463 - Butler Reference

Includes many of the polls listed in this section. The Index lists the questions asked; the answers (data) are available in the companion microfiche set, FX3 4117, located in Lehman and Butler.

The web version,

Service restricted to members of the Columbia community

Polling the Nations, is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present.

The ANES (American National Election Studies) Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior

Provides political observers, policy makers, journalists, teachers, students, and social scientists with immediate access to tables and graphs that display the ebb and flow of public opinion and electoral behavior and choice in American politics since 1948. The Guide presents a small portion of responses to the questions that have been asked in the 1952-2004 American National Election Studies time-series. The data displays are organized into nine topics: Social and Religious Characteristics of the Electorate, Ideological Self-Identification, Public Opinion on Public Policy Issues, Support for the Political System, Political Involvement and Participation in Politics, Evaluation of the Presidential Candidates, Evaluation of Congressional Candidates, Vote Choice

The Gallup Organization

Harris Interactive, formerly the Louis Harris Poll

Public Opinion Quarterly. 1937-

HM 261 .A1 P8 - Lehman

Quinnipiac College Polling Institute, Hamden, Connecticut

The only independent poll which surveys residents in the states of Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey about issues and candidate preferences for state and national races; it also studies issues of common concern for the tri-state region.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

A non-profit, non-partisan public opinion data archive at the University of Connecticut

iPoll Databank
iPoll is a comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion. A full-text retrieval system, the iPoll online database is organized at the question level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys, 1935 to present. Surveys archived in the Roper Catalog were originally gathered by academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and many more.
America at the Polls, 1994.
Storrs, CT : Roper Center ; University of Connecticut, 1995.
JK 1968 1994 - Lehman
America at the Polls, 1996.
Storrs, CT : Roper Center ; University of Connecticut, 1997.
JK 1968 1996g - Lehman
The Public Perspective: a Roper Center Review of Public Opinion and Polling. Bimonthly.
Storrs, CT : The Center, 1989-
HM 261 .P88 - Lehman

The Vanishing Voter

A Project of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, the Vanishing Voter Project seeks to reinvigorate the presidential campaign through research-based proposals designed to improve its structure. It includes weekly national polls that are designed to measure the public's interest and involvement in the 2000 presidential campaign.

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