party-platforms

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 (http://razor.occams.info), Jeff Pratt (http://jeffreypratt.net), and Michael Carbone (https://twitter.com/wandermfc).

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

Annotations

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

<goal>...</goal> is used around abstract policy goals.

<proposal>...</proposal> 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.