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.
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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.
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.