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National Institute on Money in State Politics Democratic Underground Follow The Money Handbook You've probably discovered already that if you're interested in following the money in politics, OpenSecrets.org has done most of the heavy-lifting for you. But if you want to dig around in Federal Election Commission data on your own--or maybe you want to research state- or local-level data, which the Center for Responsive Politics doesn't track--then you've found your guide. Do-It-Yourself Data-Digging Published by CRP in 1994, this handbook was written especially for journalists by our former executive director, Larry Makinson, who developed the system we use to classify campaign contributions while he was a newspaper reporter. If you'd like to purchase the entire book--it makes a great textbook for aspiring journalists--please visit our e-store.

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