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American Elections and Campaigns – 2008 to 2012


Research Guides: Campaigns & Elections: Election Statistics & Data

Historical data on elections (presidential, congressional and gubernatorial), campaign finances, voter demographics, voter turnout, and political parties.

The Timeline of Presidential Elections

The book The Timeline of Presidential Elections: How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter, Robert S. Erikson and Christopher Wlezien is published by University ...

Public funding of presidential elections - FEC

Eligible presidential candidates receive federal government funds to pay for the qualified expenses of their political campaigns in both the primary and ...

Out of 1,164 General-Election Campaign Events in the Past 4 ...

In the 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections, the major-party presidential and vice-presidential candidates conducted 1164 general-election ...

Elections and Voting Data Guide: United States (U.S.) and ...

Contains counts of voter registration and voter turnout (using the Citizen Voting Age Population, CVAP) for all counties in the United ...

A Campaign Map, Morphed By Money : It's All Politics - NPR

Campaign reporters spend a lot of time pointing at color-coded electoral maps like the one below, showing which states voted for Republican ...

American National Election Studies: Home - ANES

Fortuitously, the study pioneered survey sampling theories and methods that resulted in the only correct prediction of the presidential election. The “Dewey ...

The Living Room Candidate

An archive of presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to the present, organized by year, type, and issue, with teacher resources and playlists by ...

Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election

A unified computer database that gathers and refines information on millions of potential voters is at the forefront of campaign technology – and could be the ...

Federal Role in U.S. Campaigns and Elections: An Overview

These are campaign finance; election administration; election security; redistricting; qualifications and contested elections; and voting rights ...

Presidential Candidates 1948-2012

The following table shows the number of votes per candidate for all Presidential General Elections from 1948 to 2012 in the State of Maryland.

Section 2: Issues of the 2012 Campaign | Pew Research Center

Fully 86% of registered voters say that the economy will be very important to their vote in the fall; 84% say that jobs will be very ...

Trends in Campaign Financing, 1980-2016 - Bipartisan Policy Center

This has been especially pronounced in presidential primaries, with early money sharply increasing after 2000. In congressional elections, the ...

FEC: Home

Find what you need to know about the federal campaign finance process. Explore legal resources, campaign finance data, help for candidates and committees, ...

How Obama's Team Used Big Data to Rally Voters

Two years after Barack Obama's election as president, Democrats suffered their worst defeat in decades. The congressional majorities that ...

CAMPAIGN LENGTH AND ITS IMPACT ON VOTER TURNOUT

Lamar Alexander was never elected president and yet this helps to illustrate how presidential campaigning starts many years before the election. The lengths of ...

Data | MIT Election Lab

This dataset contains precinct-level returns for US Senate elections on November 3, 2020. Nov 3, 2022. MIT ...

USA /// IN BRIEF ELECTIONS

WAIT TO VOTE. AT A POLLING. PLACE IN. LOS ANGELES'. VENICE BEACH. DISTRICT,. NOVEMBER 4,. 2008. Page 8. 6. • THE ONLY. ELECTED ...

The Effects of Presidential Campaign Rallies on Voter Behavior ...

We do this by studying the effect of campaign rallies held by. Donald Trump and other U.S. Presidential candidates since 2008. To measure the ...

The Internet's Role in Campaign 2008 | Pew Research Center

Three-quarters (74%) of internet users went online during the 2008 election to take part in, or get news and information about the 2008 campaign.