Presidential debates
See video footage and transcripts from the official Commission on presidential debates: http://www.debates.org/ There is a historical section with information on debates from 1858 onwards, in addition to coverage from the main US newspapers. http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=debate-history C-Span also has some coverage and pre and post-debate discussion on its website http://www.c-span.org/Debates/Events/Town-Hall-Presidential-Debate/10737434294-9/ The C-Span video library http://www.c-spanvideo.org/topic/54 has extensive footage […]
TV News Search Borrow
http://archive.org/details/tv Internet Archive site. This service is designed to help USA citizens better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts from relevant television news programmes. The collection now contains 350,000 news programmes collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San […]
Tweeting #OWS
http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ A great new digital archive from Emory University. Ten million tweets about Occupy Wall Street have now been collected. The site includes timeline of key events, plus useful maps and word clouds which allow hastags and trends to be mapped over time. See the data analysis section for methodology and techniques: http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/about/data-analysis/
American Presidential Nominations
The American presidency project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/nomination.php has a database of presidential nomination acceptance speeches from 1880 onwards. Recent ones include YouTube videos. President Obama’s September 6th speech is likely to be added there shortly. Mitt Romney’s speech is already up. The official Obama website campaign has videos of remarks from the convention including Michelle Obama’s speech. http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/in-case-you-missed-it-julian-castro-and-michelle-obama Unusual […]
USA voting patterns new visualization
http://smpbff1.dsd.census.gov/TheDataWeb_HotReport/servlet/HotReportEngineServlet?reportid=767b1387bea22b8d3e8486924a69adcd&emailname=essb@boc&filename=0328_nata.hrml A series of graphs taken from the Current Population Survey. You can look by district, ethnic group and age for elections covering 1996-2010. For access to other tables relating to the US census see the Data ferret tool http://dataferrett.census.gov/ This also has details on the methodology used in the survey.
US Presidential Elections in Cartoons
Cartoons from the Cartoonist Group including 2012 editorial cartoons from top us newspapers http://www.theeditorialcartoons.com/subject/6219/The-2012+Election-Editorial-Cartoons.php Washington post http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-cartoons-on-election-2012/2012/02/08/gIQAaNk61Q_gallery.html selection of the best so far. Finally some satire from the Onion http://www.theonion.com/section/politics/
US Elections and African Americans
The NAACP has declared that certain US states have introduced practices which are restricting black voting rights in the report Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America. http://www.naacp.org/pages/defending-democracy See more about their campaign http://www.thisismyvote.org/ which is encouraging black political participation during the elections. The resources section has a collection of articles covering race […]
US Election Advertising
Electad: http://electad.com/ An independent site which claims that it posts all examples from the different campaigns online. The site also indexes polls, tweets and interviews. Many newspapers also analyse the latest ads. See this example from the Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/track-presidential-campaign-ads-2012/ If you are interested in ads, the Living room candidate enables you to view examples from […]
Year in Hate and Extremism 2011
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring Released by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Sobering reading on the extent of racism and extremism (both left and right wing in USA). The website also has an online map of active US hate groups http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map
Center for Women and Politics, Rutgers University
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/ Great starting point for finding academic information on Gender and the presidential elections. The 2012 project is aiming to increase female political participation. It includes: 2012 Women’s Election Tracker http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/site/pages/election_tracker.php which is following the progress of women through this election cycle – it has state by state statistics for women in Congress and state […]
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