Worldwide Elections Guide: U.S. Presidential Elections
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2004 Presidential Election
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George W. Bush | Republican | |
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John Buchanan | Republican | |
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Bill Wyatt | Republican | ended candidacy after the Louisiana primary |
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Wesley Clark | Democrat | ended candidacy February 11, 2004 |
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Howard Dean | Democrat | ended candidacy February 18, 2004 |
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John Edwards | Democrat | ended candidacy March 3, 2004 |
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Richard Gephardt | Democrat | ended candidacy January 20, 2004 |
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Bob Graham | Democrat | ended candidacy October 7, 2003 |
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John Kerry | Democrat | |
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Dennis Kucinich | Democrat | |
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Joseph Lieberman | Democrat | ended candidacy February 3, 2004 |
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Carol Moseley-Braun | Democrat | ended candidacy January 15, 2004 |
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Rev. Al Sharpton | Democrat | announced endorsement of John Kerry March 15, 2004, but has not withdrawn as of 07/01/2004 |
Web Portals
Disinfopedia: offers information on each presidential candidate including news headlines and brief bios and links to other political web resources.
Elections 2004: created by the University of Michigan Document Center, is a comprehensive web site on 2004 presidential elections. The page is organized by background information, candidates, campaign and political issues.
Encyclopedia: U.S. presidential election 2004: provides information on the timeline of the elections, electoral college, the candidate’s career history, historical presidential elections and more.
Race for the White House George Washington University: links to various news sources, information on electoral vote of individual states, bios of each candidate etc.
White House 04:
This site from Northern Illinois
Wikipedia presidential election, 2004: coverage of the 2004 election including timeline, important dates, and information on all candidates.
News & Analysis
Campaign Desk: created by Columbia Journalism Review, provides critique and analysis of 2004 campaign coverage by medium, issues, candidates, and dates.
FindLaw: contains election laws and links to individual candidates’ web site.
Minnesota E-Democracy: provides links to major media sources, non-profit and government resources, and other discussion group, voting information, and opinion polls directories.
Political Humor: jokes, cartoons, satire, and other humor about the 2004 presidential candidates and 2004 election.
Political Wire: offers the latest 2004 presidential election news as well as links to other political web resources
SF Politics: provides the latest campaign news, latest poll results, and other useful links.
Watchblog: This multiple-editor blog is broken up into three major political affiliations, each with its own blog: the Democrats, the Republicans, and the Third Party.
Project Vote Smart: provides individual Congressmen and Senators’ voting records, information about presidential candidates, directories of state legislator, campaign finance information, and reference documents such as such as the Constitution, the U.S. Government Manual, and How Our Laws are Made.
Campaign Finance
Campaign Finance Law Resource: Federal Election Commission site provides various legal documents on campaign finance law.
Fundrace 2004: offers candidates’ rankings by GrassRoots index, Devotion index, FactCats Index, campaign finance information, money maps and much more.
Opensecrets.org: The Center for Responsive Politics provides information on campaign funds raised and spent by presidential candidates, lists of donations by state, economic sector, industry and interest, and top contributions.
PACronyms: Federal Election Commission lists acronyms of political action committees.
Presidential Campaign Finance: provides an overview of campaign finance, individual candidates’ funding information, and links to other web resources.
Maps & Statistics
CNN: covers 2004 presidential election news including polling information.
Map of Federal Primaries: This map from the National Association of Secretaries of State, offers chronological 2004 primaries dates.
Gallup Poll: Gallup organization offers the most recent presidential Gallup polls, special reports on the election and news releases.
Past Presidential Elections
America Presidency: created by the National Museum of American History, provides links to web sites on the US presidency and presidents, bibliographies, an interactive timeline, hands-on activities, reference resources and more.
America Presidential Elections: 1789 to 2000 presidential election coverage including election results, inaugural address, bios, Vice presidents and electoral information.
Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections: offers the detailed national results for major and minor candidate for U.S. presidential election from 1789 to 2000. It contains information on candidates, parties, electoral vote total, maps, charts and more.
Commission of Presidential Elections (CPE): CPE provides transcripts, images and video (real or enactments) of presidential election debates from 1858 to 2000.
Election Statistics: The Clerk of the U.S. House Representatives lists elections results from 1920 to most recent, the official vote counts for presidential electors, U.S. senators, and U.S. Representatives.
Historical Presidential Elections: contains cartoons from Harper’s Weekly and other leading journals, Library Congress Collection of American Political Prints; 1860 - 1912.
Living Room Candidate:
created by the America
Presidential Elections and Electoral College: created by the Library of Congress, presents the pages from records of Congressional debates and Congressional action on presidential elections, contested information and electoral votes from 1789 to 1873.
Presidential Elections 1789-2000: The National Atlas of the United States of America features printable maps for presidential elections from 1789-2000
Presidential
Job Performance: The Roper
POTUS from 1789 – Current: Potus, a project of the Internet Public Library, includes biographies and portraits of the president, the first lady, and the vice-president, highlights of the presidency, election results, list of cabinet officers and sometimes biographical information about cabinet officers, historical documents and more.
U.S.
Presidential Election Maps: 1860 -1996: hosted at the Geospatial and
Statistical Data
The Times Looks Back: Presidential Elections 1896-1996: provides historic articles, editorials, trivia quizzes, facts about the U.S. presidents and more.
Wikipedia US Presidential Election
Electoral College
The Electoral College Vote Calculator
Electoral College System: provides overviews of the electoral college system, the electoral college’s pros and cons, and major election laws.
How the Electoral College Works: provides an introduction to the electoral college including the present view on the system and links to other web resources.
Presidential Elections and the Electoral College (The Proceedings of the Electoral Commission of 1877): This Library of Congress project presents the pages from records of Congressional debates on presidential elections, contested presidential elections, electoral colleges from 1789 to 1873.
The Unofficial Homepage of the Electoral College: covers presidential election results from 1789 to present, election laws, polls, electoral college debates, analysis and much more.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): A Procedural Guide to the Electoral College. NARA provides box scores for electoral college vote from 1789-1996. list of states and numbers of votes assigned in electoral college, votes for electoral college in 1992 and 1996 and US Constitution and US code relating to presidential election.
When no Majority Rules: the Electoral College and presidential succession: This book describes the process how US President and Vice are selected. It explores historical precedents, issues of the system, and the role of all groups including political parties and the courts
Print Resources
The resources below may all be found in the Social Sciences and Humanities reference stacks. Please see a reference librarian for more information.
America at the polls, 1960-1996: Kennedy to Clinton: a handbook of American presidential election statistics / Alice V. McGillivray, Richard M. Scammon, Rhodes Cook
SSH Ref Stacks (JK524 .M33 1998 )
America at the polls, 1960-2000 John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush: a handbook of American presidential election statistics / [compiled by] Alice V. McGillivray, Richard M. Scammon, Rhodes Cook
SSH Ref Stacks ( JK524 .M33 2001)
America at the polls 2: a handbook of American presidential election statistics, 1968-1984 / compiled and edited by Richard M. Scammon and Alice V. McGillivray
SSH Ref Stacks (JK524 .S22 1988 )
Atlas of California presidential elections by county, 1932-1996 / Alan William Miller
SSH Ref Stacks (G1526.F9 M6 1997)
Atlas of United States presidential elections, 1932-1996 / Alan William Miller
SSH Ref Stacks, SSH MAP Room (JK1967 .M55 1997 )
Presidential elections, 1789-1996
SSH Ref Stacks (JK524 .P6783 1997)
The pursuit of the White House: a handbook of presidential election statistics and history / G. Scott Thomam
SSH Ref Stacks (JK524 .T44 1987)
Source book of American presidential campaign and election statistics, 1948-1968. Compiled and edited by John H. Runyon, Jennefer Verdini [and] Sally S. Runyon. Foreword by Hubert H. Humphrey
United States presidential elections, 1788-1860: the official results by county and state / Michael J. Dubin Published Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c2002 :
SSH Ref Stacks (JK524 .D778 2002)
Vital statistics on the presidency: Washington to Clinton / Lyn Ragsdale
SSH Ref Stacks (JK518 .R34 1998 )
Prepared by James R. Jacobs and Shinjoung Yeo, September 23, 2004
