Resources for WUNC Radio News Staff: Politics

Current and historical bills, hearing transcripts, testimony, and full-text of CRS reports from the U.S. Congress.

Detailed voting data about American politics. Data on Presidential, Senatorial, Congressional, and Gubernatorial candidates. Also includes campaigns and elections, political parties, and voters and demographics. Download data as CSV .1789-present.

Social, political, & economic statistics of the United States.

Start with iPOLL to search at the question level.
See also Roper/Express, which allows searching at the dataset level. National opinion polls back to 1935, both U.S. and some international polls. Holdings include Gallup, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, ABC, CBS, Wall Street Journal and many more.

Many datasets are available for instant download in ASCII or SPSS format.

NC data in: Population, Housing, Health, Legal & Courts, Environment, Energy, Employment & Income, Business & Industry, Agriculture & Transportation. From N.C. government. 1990-current.

Customized Google search of 700 U.S. and international think tanks. These institutions generate public policy research and analysis and are affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations, or businesses.