Campaigns, Election, U.S. data on other subjects

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Landscape of electoral competitiveness and poll aggregation

Cook Political Report (Links to an external site.)

Real Clear Politics (Links to an external site.)

Real Clear Polling

New York Times (Links to an external site.)

Electoral Vote.com

Economist YouGov Projects

US Elections Project (University of Florida)

270towin

Profiles of candidates and their issue positions; a rundown on all local/state/federal races; access to ballots for any address; find ballot measures

"Google maps Indiana 1st district" (search tool for addresses in districts)

Project Vote Smart (Links to an external site.)

Ballotpedia (Links to an external site.) (enter address for what's on the ballot)

Bill Track 50 (State Legislators)

Congress.gov (Members of Congress). Click "Members" in dropdown menu.

Survey research on campaigns, issues, public opinion/beliefs/attitudes

Roper (Links to an external site.)

Pew Research (Links to an external site.)

YouGov (online panel polling) (Links to an external site.)

Gallup (Links to an external site.)

American National Election Studies

General Social Survey

Morning Consult Polling

Rasmussen Polling

Axios

New York Times/Sienna Poll

Wall Street Journal Poll

Real Clear Polling Latest Polls (collection of individual polls)

538 Latest Polls (collection of individual polls)

Accessible, quantitative analysis on current political and electoral trends

Five Thirty Eight - Politics (Links to an external site.)

Nate Silver

Relevance of candidate, issues, electoral race in journalism and academic research

ProQuest Central (Links to an external site.)

The Economist

Wall Street Journal

New York Times

Campaign advertising and financing data

Facebook Political Ad Archive (and Documentation) (Links to an external site.)

OpenSecrets.org, Center for Responsive Politics (Links to an external site.)

Massachusetts Campaign Finance (and other state level sites)

Campaign advertising/financing typology:

General typology

Sunlight Foundation typology of campaign financing (Links to an external site.)

Soft Money

Independent expenditure groups: 501c (4-6), Super PACs, 527s, etc. (Links to an external site.)

Hard Money (traditional). Spent directly by candidates, PACs, political parties

PACs (Links to an external site.)

Political Parties (Links to an external site.)

Authorized Candidate Committee (Links to an external site.)

Self Funding (Links to an external site.)

Infographics galore on everything

Statista

Other Sources of Data and Information

Franklin Pierce University DiPietro Library Social Explorer (Easy generation of tables, maps, downloadable datasets)

American National Election Studies (ANES)

American Presidency Project (University of California - Santa Barbara)

US Elections Project (University of Florida)

US VEP Turnout

Pew Research Pathways

GovTrack.us: Tracking the United States Congress

TRAC Immigration (Syracuse University)

More Data and Analysis Tools

Wikipedia: U.S. States by GDP per capita, U.S. States by GINI coefficient

Human Development Index for the U.S. 50 States

Bureau of Economic Analysis of U.S. Department of Commerce (original source of U.S. states' GDPpc)

U.S. Census Bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce (original source for the GINI coefficient)

World Population Review: Best U.S. states for education, U.S. States by quality of life

FBI: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (All years up to 2019), FBI Crime Trends, FBI Crime Data Explorer, FBI's most recent raw and downloadable data

More crime data: https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Google Trends

2022 Midterm Elections

Exit Polls

Voter Turnout: University of Florida Voting Lab