Political Science 355 Library Resources: Topics

Warrantless Wiretaps

Obama's defense plan (http://www.barackobama.com/issues/defense/)
Warrantless wiretaps
NSA warrantless surveillance
(FISC) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Surveillance and without warrants and (text messaging or phone* or email*)
Alberto Gonzales and surveillance
50 U.S.C. 1802
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Warrantless and Obama and view*

Environmental Issues

Obama's energy plan (http://www.barackobama.com/energy)
Obama and McCain and envoronment*
(global warming or alternative energie*) and Obama
Obama on the Record (http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/07/30/obama/)
Obama Names Energy, Environmental Team (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98286993)

Economic Recovery/Wall Street Melt Down

Obama's economy plan (http://www.barackobama.com/issues/economy/)
Obama and NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
economy and foreclosure and prevention
economic policies
Obama and economic challenge
Hedge funds or Adjustable Rate Mortages (ARMs)
Federal Reserves and (Greenspan or Bernanke)

Human Rights/Torture

Human Rights Watch
World Report 2009 (http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2009)
International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty
UN Human Rights Council
Kenneth Roth (executive director of Human Rights Watch)
Bush and Human Rights
Obama and Human Rights and (China or Isreal or Israeli-Palestinian Conflict)
Guantanamo and (Bush or Obama)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (http://www.csis.org/)

Voter Turnout

United States Election Assistance Commission
See Election Statistics for data on national and state voter registration and turnout for recent Congressional and Presidential elections.
Voting and Registration - U.S. Census Bureau
ElectionArchive.org Under Data on left, see Sources of Original Data for data on voter registration from some states.

Campaign Finance (Financial Disclosure, Honorari, PACs etc.)

Federal Election Commission: Campaign Finance Reports and Data (http://www.fec.gov/disclosure.shtml)
Candidate, PAC, party summaries. FInancial Disclosure reports. Reports from 1993 to the present.
Opensecrets.org (http://www.opensecrets.org)
Website for the Center for Responsive Politics. See Who Gives and Who Gets. Includes Donor Lookup back to 1990.
Project Vote Smart (http://www.vote-smart.org/)
Choose "Campaign Finances." Biographical information, campaign finances, interest group ratings, and voting records. The information for Congress and the President is provided by the Center for Responsive Politics and the National Library on Money and Politics
ACE Project (http://www.aceproject.org/)
(Administration and Cost of Elections) provides detailed instructions on what is involved in running an election.
Annenberg Political Fact Check (http://www.factcheck.org/)
Nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" group that monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases
E-Voting Information and legal cases (http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/)
F rom the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Elections...the American Way (http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/elections/ho...)
[Library of Congress] - introduction to the U.S. electoral system.
The Living Room Candidate (http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/)
250+ Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004 - from the Museum of the Moving Image.
Politicalweb.info (http://politicalweb.info/)
Tracks "the emergence and development of campaign Web site" and offers resources on the role of the Internet in politics.
PollingReport.com (http://www.pollingreport.com/) and RealClearPolitics Poll Averages (http://www.pollingreport.com/)
Polling data.