Thorough, extensive in scope, and meticulously researched, America Votes includes official, state-certified election returns and key data by county and by district for the House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections for the 2007–2008 election cycle. This volume is an essential acquisition for university, school, public, and professional libraries. Updates to this edition include:
- The historic election of the first African American president of the United States
- The defeat of Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens amid a felony conviction by Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich
- Finalized congressional results in the hotly contested states of Georgia, Minnesota, and other selected races
- Major state constitution amendment results including bans on gay marriage in California, Arizona, and Florida
Reviews
Acclaim for the previous edition:
“A resource of election facts and figures that should be in all academic and large libraries.”
- American Reference Books Annual
Bio(s)
Alice McGillivray, Elections Research Center
Alice V. McGillivray was a longtime associate at the Elections Research Center and a coauthor of the America at the Polls series in the 1980s and later until her death in 1995.
Rhodes Cook, CQ Press
Rhodes Cook is a veteran Washington political analyst and writer, covering presidential and congressional elections as well as voting trends in general. For more than two decades, he was a political reporter on CQ's Weekly magazine. He currently hosts the political website rhodescook.com, publishes a bimonthly political newsletter, and since 1996 has been the author of "America Votes" and a series on U.S. primary elections.
Richard Scammon, Elections Research Center
Richard M. Scammon, who died in April 2001, was widely considered America’s most prominent elections expert during a long career as a government official, adviser to presidents, and analyst of voting trends and developments. He served in the State Department, as Census Bureau director under President John F. Kennedy, as chairman of the Presidential Commission on Regulation and Voting Participation in 1963 and 1964, and as an international election observer. He established the Elections Research Center in Washington, D.C., for voting analysis and publication of the America Votes series.
