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President Obama votes in the 2012 general election. From Wikipedia.

Welcome to the Elections Resource Guide!

Current & Future Elections: polling, predictions, where to vote in DC/Maryland/Virginia, and more.
Past Elections: data and statistics on previous elections, voting maps, and archives of advertising.
Campaign Finance & Law: find who contributed to a candidate and laws governing elections.
Political Parties and Election Terms: resources on the political climate of a particular state or locality, and definitions of esoteric election words.
Election Books: a sampling of print books from our catalog for further reading about politics and elections.
Foreign Elections: information on non-US elections and electoral assistance.

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CQ Voting and Elections Collection
This collection integrates data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships. The website is organized into six categories: Presidential Elections, Congressional Elections,
Gubernatorial Elections, Campaigns and Elections, Political Parties, and Voters and Demographics.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
The iPOLL databank offers access to nearly half a million survey questions and answers asked in the U.S. by more than 150 survey organizations from the 1930's to the present.

Also included is access to the archives and publications of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, which contain over 17,000 datasets, JPOLL (Japanese Public Opinion), Japanese Data Library, Latin American Databank, and all issues of Public Perspective Magazine. Registration is necessary.

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