RHCS 490: Election 2024 Processes of Political Communication

Ballotpedia is the digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections. the site has information about national and state elections with links to candidate websites, social media accounts, and for incumbents, voting records. I suggest beginning with 2020 Elections>Overview in the menu bar on the left.

This part of the website links to information about each senator, including their votes and any videos of them from the C-Span video library.

*Follow these instructions to create an account with your Richmond email address. Read articles published on Washingonpost.com. Note: You must both verify your email address and activate your subscription after creating your account. If you do not see your account name, try disabling all ad blockers in your browser. (Washington Post)

*Redeem a code and create an account using your UR email address to access the New York Times' website. Your account will be active for 26 weeks, after which you will need to repeat the process and redeem the code again. Note: If you have a current paid New York Times subscription, call 800-698-8437 and cancel your paid subscription, prior to redeeming the code and registering. Our subscription does NOT contain access to Games or Cooking. Once registered, you will have access to the New York Times articles from 1851-present. For the date range 1923-1980, users are limited to 5 accesses per day. (New York Times)

*Create an account using your UR email address. You must login to your Bloomberg account in order to read content on the website. Read up-to-the-minute business and markets news, data, analysis, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News. Watch Bloomberg TV and gain access to the Bloomberg app. (Bloomberg)

*Create an account using your UR email address. Once you have an account, login to access the most current articles from this news source that focus on politics, business, science, and economics. Note: If you already have an account with The Economist (free or paid) that uses your UR email address, change your email on that account to a personal email address. You can only take advantage of the UR group subscription at the time of registration, and you must use your UR email address for that (which you can't do if the email address is already in use). (Economist Group)

Note: If you want to access WSJ using an app or via Google, create an individual account using your UR email address OR enter the email address in the app and send yourself a one-time passcode to login. The app does not redirect to the UR login screen, so you can't use your UR password. (Dow Jones)

Online directory of statewide and federal candidates, with links to their campaign websites. I include this site mostly because at the very bottom of each state's page is a list of local news sources, including radio and TV, many of which you can search for interviews and profiles in local media. Also has list/links to state political parties and other information about their elected officials.

Publishes the best commentary, news, polling data, and links to important resources from all points of the political compass and covering all the important issues of the day

News about politics and policy.

News articles and opinion pieces on aspects of the 2012 election and campaigns.

Organization tracks political donations in all 50 states, providing reports and graphics showing trends within, and across, states.

A decade worth of television news programs from local, national, and international sources.

This part of the website links to information about each senator, including their votes and any videos of them from the C-Span video library.

Larry Sabato is a professor at UVa and this website focuses on the predicting outcomes of the general elections for congressional, presidential and gubernatorial races.

Provides analysis and predictions of the likely outcome of elections.

Silver correctly predicted the results in 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.

Analysis of the US news media including how much press coverage is dedicated to each 2016 presidential candidate and election issues overall.

Studies on how media influences the public in elections and the public's opinion of the media.

Free, unbiased, in-depth information about current officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting.

Information and research on all sides of the controversial issues of the day

Information about election administration and reform.

The stated mission of the project is to provide timely and accurate election statistics, electoral laws, research reports, and other useful information regarding the United States electoral system. Links to a twitter account with news updates, and comments.

Features trends and analysis regarding public opinion on American government and politicians.

Generates polls, reports & statistics covering global attitudes, politics, religion and social trends

Publishes the best commentary, news, polling data, and links to important resources from all points of the political compass and covering all the important issues of the day

Provides voting data, public opinion polls and political participation data to analyze election results in the US.

Scientific news/research retractions

Investigates urban legends, hoaxes, and folklore.