Civic Literacy: Polling, Money & More

The American National Election Studies produces data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists.

Since 1920, the Clerk of the House has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories.

Statistics from recent elections are available in scanned image (Adobe Acrobat .PDF) format. Please note that printing a whole document may take a long time.

The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does not take positions on policy issues.

This Center, one of Pew's eight, explores public attitudes about the credibility, social value and salience of the news media. There is frequent overlap into areas related and responding to political campaigning.

Pollster tracks, aggregates, and analyzes political polls. This independently published site also links to other polling and survey research groups, and provides a FAQ page explaining how political polling is done.

An independently published non-partisan web site, CampaignMoney makes available the names of financial donors to federal political campaigns. These records are a matter of public record provided by the Federal Election Commission.

The National Institute on Money in State Politics is the only nonpartisan, nonprofit organization revealing the influence of campaign money on state-level elections and public policy in all 50 states.

The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.