Provides web-based access to United States Census data from 1790 to the present, and to other U.S. and international data, with the ability to make tables and interactive maps easily or export data for analysis. Data include the most commonly used variables and geographies.
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Numbers are from July 2018. If your state has party registration, you can check the state's Board of Elections site (Google it) for more current numbers. Example from North Carolina is below.
Data collected by each state may differ, but to find the table above, I went to the NC State Board of Elections site (https://www.ncsbe.gov), and found the "Election Results and Data" link under "Public Records, Data & Info."
Campaign Information
Your best bet for researching campaign strategy in your state is likely to be a mix of the candidates' official websites, local news, and reputable political analysis. Here are some ideas for getting started:
America's News is the most comprehensive U.S.newspaper resource available. It provides information on people, issues, and events in the local area or around the country. Updated daily, America's Newspapers offers tens of millions of current and archived full-text articles from newspapers nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database. It includes the complete electronic editions of 827 newspapers - with 75% of these sources not available in any other library database.
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Provides detailed voting data for the study of American politics, both past and present. Presidential, Senatorial, Congressional, and Gubernatorial candidates are covered, as are campaigns and elections, political parties, and voters and demographics.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1788 - present
Exit poll data from 1972 onward, available from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. NOTE: exit polls do not capture ALL votes, but a sample of voters.