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Political Parties, Organizations, and Elections

Political Parties | Elections | Organizations


Political Parties

Democratic Party
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - U.S. House of Representatives
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee - U.S. Senate
House Democratic Caucus
House Democratic Leadership

Republican Party
Republican National Committee (RNC)
National Republican Congressional Committee
House Republican Policy Committee
Senate Republican Conference
Speaker of the House (D. Hastert)

Other Political Parties
Directory of U.S. Political Parties - Ron Gunzburger's gateway list
Communist Party USA
Green Parties of North America - organized by state
Libertarian Party
Reform Party - Ross Perot was a founding member of this party

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Elections

Atlas of U. S. Presidential Elections
Dave Leip's collection of presidential election data from 1789 to 2004.

Campaign Finance Institute
Non-partisan institute, affiliated with The George Washington University, that conducts research in the field of campaign finance.

Campaign Finance Reform
Brookings Institution site of news and research reports

FAIR VOTE: Center for Voting and Democracy
Non-partisan organization that conducts research on electoral systems and practices.

Federal Election Commission
The U. S. govenment agency that enforces federal laws on campaign finances.

Factcheck.org: Annenberg Political Fact Check
A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania to monitor the accuracy of United States politicians and political players.

Opensecrets.org
Web site of the Center for Responsive Politics. Tracks the political money to make a direct link from campaign donations to votes and public policy decisions of elected officials.

Project Vote-Smart
Non partisan organization that provides information on state and federal candidates for office. Includes issue postions, and information on state elections, initiatives, and referenda.

RollCallOnline
Newspaper of Capitol Hill

U. S. Electoral College
Historical and current information from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

U. S. Politics
U. S. specific resources from the Documents Center (University of Michigan)

Voting and Elections - FirstGov

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Organizations - Partisan and Non-partisan

Almanac of Federal PACS
Main Ref JK1991 .A744

Biennial that profiles each PAC with history, membership, contact information, and financial data with their campaign contributions for past 5 years. Latest edition in Bartle reference; earlier editions back to 1988 are in the stacks.

Political Advocacy Groups
Directory of U. S. Lobbyists and political action committees (PACS)

PoliticalMoneyLine
Free money and politics tracking site. Other services provide data collection and linking of financial and political information to numerous U.S. government departments and agencies.

Think Tanks
- Documents Center (University of Michigan)
Annotated list.of organizations that conduct public policy research.

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