First published in the 1950s, America Votes has for more than forty years been America’s most trusted source for complete and reliable election information. The format of America Votes has changed little since it was first published, and it is now the longest running series of election information available anywhere. Every two years, a new volume is released following each national election.
The latest edition, America Votes 24, chronicles the remarkable elections of 2000 in which the presidential winner was not known for weeks after the actual votes were cast, and the Senate and House division between parties was reduced to just a few votes. Few elections in U.S. history have been as spellbinding or as controversial. Its legacy will last into the 2002 elections and well beyond.
All of these results are meticulously reported in America Votes 24. The editors gather official election returns for the president, Congress and gubernatorial races that occurred in the 1999-2000 election cycle and present them in easy-to-read tables.
The book includes:
- Official state-certified election returns
- Summary of primary data
- Data organized in chapters for each state
- Complete county-by-county general election returns
- Winner/loser percentages included in each table with the county votes
- Statewide vote tables for governors and senators since 1945, offering a unique historical perspective for state voting patterns.
Reviews
"This title is a resource of election facts and figures that should be in all academic and large public libraries. It will be helpful to students and to inquiring citizens alike."
- 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.
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.
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.
