https://github.com/joshdata/party-platforms

The 2012 Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican Party platforms, plus every Democratic platform since 1840, cleaned up into nice XML.
https://github.com/joshdata/party-platforms

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The 2012 Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican Party platforms, plus every Democratic platform since 1840, cleaned up into nice XML.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/joshdata/party-platforms
• Owner: JoshData
• Created: 2012-09-01T00:31:43.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: primary
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-11T15:06:44.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-31T07:16:52.955Z (over 1 year ago)
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• Stars: 26
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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party-platforms

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The Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, Justice, and Socialist National Party Platforms for 2012, cleaned up into nice XML and annotated with issue area tags. Also includes past party platforms, including the entire history of Democratic national party platforms.

What apps can you build with this?

Cleanup by Joshua Tauberer (), Jeff Pratt (), and Michael Carbone (https://twitter.com/wandermfc).

The original copyright is unkown. Our changes are released into the public domain.

Annotations

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The 2012 Democratic and Republican platforms are annotated with two tags:

	... is used around abstract policy goals.

	

	... is used around specific policy proposals.

	

Each annotation tag has an attribute called "issues", which is a space-separated list of issue-area tags from this list:

	abortion				agriculture				budget

	campaignfinance	civilservice				crime

	dc							defense					discrimination

	education				elderly						energy

	environment			faith							federalreserve

	finance					foreignpolicy				gaymarriage

	guns						health						immigration

	infrastructure		internet					jobs

	labor						lowincome				nativeamericans

	privacy					property					science

	socialsecurity		taxes						territories

	trade					transparency			tsa

	usps						voting

	

Annotation is a very subjective sport. I (Josh) have done my best to annotate the most relevant aspects of each platform to the national debate, rather than wrapping every word with a tag.