Elections 2022 - HSS 495 - Senior Research & Writing Seminar

Elections 2020

Research Assignment – 2022 Elections

At a minimum, your presentation should address the following:

Brief biographies of the leading candidates, including primary results where relevant.
Positions of candidates on key national and local issues > abortion, criminal justice reform, economy (inflation and tax cuts), education, gun control, health care, immigration, tax cuts, tariffs, international relations, etc. Be sure to visit the official websites of the candidates.
Recent polling information…any shifts in recent weeks/months?
Key endorsements for either side > newspapers, organizations, political leaders?
Voting trends in the state during the past 20 years > President, Governor, Senate, House races.
Share any noteworthy speeches, video clips, ads, etc.

Polling and Political News

Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball
The Crystal Ball keeps tabs on presidential elections, along with every race for the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and state governor. Besides forecasting the winners, the Crystal Ball provides analysis of trends in American politics and elections, and it features outside contributors such as Senior Columnists Alan Abramowitz of Emory University; longtime congressional reporter and analyst Rhodes Cook; and PolitiFact‘s Louis Jacobson.
Fox News - 2022 Senate Races
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in all of cable, FNC has been the most watched television news channel for more than 18 consecutive years.
Politico
POLITICO strives to be the dominant source for news on politics and policy in power centers across every continent where access to reliable information, nonpartisan journalism and real-time tools create, inform and engage a global citizenry.
Real Clear Politics
A media company focused on polling and elections information.
Ballotpedia
Ballotpedia is a digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections that is committed to neutrality in their content
CNN Politics
Political reporting from Cable News Network and the Turner Broadcasting System
Cook Political
This is a subscription website. Please see Mr. Blake for help with this source.
FiveThirtyEight
An ABC internet venture to keep one up to date in politics.
Election Central
This free website has ads but contains some relevant dates/timelines for upcoming debates, primaries, and candidate info
Pew Research Center - U.S. Politics & Policy
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions.
Polling Report
An independent, nonpartisan resource
on trends in American public opinion.
Reuters Polling Explorer
This Reuters / Ipsos poll began in January 2012 and since then continuously polled between 2,000 and 3,000 people a week. Over that period, we have asked hundreds of questions ranging from presidential politics to the Oscars, from the Syrian civil war to the perception of social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter.
Kennedy School of Government
This site is for Harvard folks and has many links not available to PA, but I include it here as it has some very good resources.
270 to win

Getting to Know the Candidate

Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
This database provides biographical reference articles on more than 650,000 international figures from all times periods and areas of study. It will also link you to relevant popular and scholarly press articles.
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Reference articles from one of the oldest and most trusted reference sources in the world.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
This database is like an online Garver Room with articles from nearly 1,000 reference sources covering all disciplines.

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HSS 495 - Senior Research & Writing Seminar: Elections 2022

Elections 2020

Polling and Political News

Getting to Know the Candidate

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