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Title: Presidential Elections 1789-1996 (Serial) by Congressional Quarterly Books ISBN: 1-56802-065-1 Publisher: CQ Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.95

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Summary: Presidential Election Statistics are stuck in 1965
Comment: Congressional Quarterly's book detailing statistics for presidential elections since 1789 represented the best scholarship at the time of its original printing.

Much of the information in this book comes from data collected by the ICPR in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The ICPR collected election returns for several political offices (including President) during the 1960s, drawing as much as possible from the original election returns in the various state archives. This collection of statistics represented a great advance over the research of prior historians, most of whom had relied on unofficial returns or newspaper results.

Another significant element of this book is the collection of statistics on the presidential primaries, which had not been systematically collected prior to the first edition of this book.

During the past thirty years, historians have found several errors in the ICPR data. CQ has chosen not to incorporate new scholarship into this book.

In reviewing the presidential primary statistics in Ohio, I noticed that CQ had several important errors (the most prominent being the 1948 Republican primary between Taft and Stassen).

In addition, CQ's source for pre-Depression primaries (Davis rather than ICPR) did not illustrate every primary state. For 1912, each of the states which voted for Oscar W. Underwood in the primaries (AL, FL, and GA) is left out of Davis's and CQ's account. Three other states were omitted in 1912 and several others for 1916 and 1920.

One other drawback to this book is that it continues the false notion that no states recorded popular votes for President before 1824. Philip Lampi has collected this information from the same sources that ICPR reviewed, but I don't expect CQ to incorporate his research either.