Finding Stuff Online

Watch this clip from The Wire.  It is the best description of research, ever.

General Statistics and The Census

California and General State Politics

• Public Policy Institute of California -- California surveys and policy analysis
• California bills and laws 
• LAO -- Legislative Analyst's Office -- analysis of CA issues
• NCSL -- National Conference of State Legislatures -- analysis and data on state issues
• Open States -- bill information for all state legislatures

Elections, Parties, Campaign Finance

• Open Secrets -- Center for Responsive Politics site for federal campaign finance information
• FEC -- Federal Election Commission
• US Presidential Election Atlas -- just what the title says, great historical data
• US Elections Project -- turnout data
• California Elections Data Archive -- local elections in CA
• Join California  -- elections in CA
• California ballot measures -- archive going back to 1911

Public Opinion

• Polling Report -- aggregation of national poll data
• Gallup -- the best-known US pollster, delivering new numbers daily (for historical Gallup data, go to the Honnold Library menu, click "databases," then "Gallup Brain.")
• Field Poll -- archive of the best-known survey in California
• The 2014 exit poll