Dear Vern  web archive

Finding Aid

Descriptive Summary

Dates: 2018–2023

Creator information: Buchanan, Vernon Gale, 1951–

About: An archive of still-active public polls drawn from the office of U.S. Congressman Vern Buchanan, a Republican from Florida’s 16th district. Buchanan sends out (almost) weekly InstaPolls and supplementary FlashPolls to his email list. These have been systematically collected and collated by Janelle Rebel beginning in March of 2018. It is unknown when JR first started corresponding with Vern.

Extent: As of March 3, 2024, 276 polls have been added to this archive as well as 10 letters to Vern from JR. JR moved out of Vern’s district in June of 2023. 💔

Arrangement

The polls are organized by year in descending date order.

Processing Note

In addition to streaming the active polls on this website, the aspx files (created by the office of Vern Buchanan and intercepted here) have been backed-up in the Internet Archive for future readability as well as stored in screenshot captures offline.

Subject Terms

Actions and defenses ; Affirmative action programs in education ; Afghanistan ; Africa ; Airlines ; American Dream ; Americans ; Armed Forces ; Artificial intelligence ; Assisted suicide ; Bank failures ; Biden, Robert Hunter, 1970– ; Borderlands—Mexico ; Borderlands—United States ; Border security ; Brady, Tom, 1977– ; Budget—United States ; Capital punishment ; Central Americans ; China ; Climatic changes ; College costs ; College sports ; COVID-19 (Disease) ; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020– ; Critical race theory ; Cuba ; Daylight saving ; Debt, Public ; Economic assistance ; Economic assistance, Domestic ; Economic sanctions ; Endangered species ; Education—Curricula ; Energy security ; Exceptionalism—United States ; Fake News ; Federal-city relations ; Fentanyl ; Firearms ; Foreign trade regulation; Free enterprise ; Genetically modified foods ; Gulf Coast (Fla.) ; Immigrants ; Immigration enforcement ; Inflation (Finance) ; Insurgency—United States ; Israel ; Iran ; Judges—Selection and appointment ; Korea (North) ; Mass media—Objectivity ; Marijuana ; Mental health ; Mexican-American Border Region ; Monuments ; National Football League ; National songs ; News agencies ; Noncitizens ; Nuclear energy ; Offshore oil well drilling ; Olympics—Participation, American ; Outer space ; Persuasion (Rhetoric) ; Police ; Police—Violence against ; Political oratory ; Postal service ; Presidents—United States—Messages ; Professional sports ; Public sculpture ; Public statues ; Race relations—Political aspects ; Racism—United States ; Red tide ; Recessions ; Retirement income—Planning ; Russia ; Shipment of goods ; Small business ; Socialism ; Social Media—Law and legislation ; Social Security ; Space security ; Stanley Cup (Hockey) ; Statehood (American politics) ; Student loans ; Supplemental unemployment benefits ; Time—Systems and standards ; Transgender athletes ; Trials (Impeachment) ; Trials (Political crimes and offenses) ; Trump, Donald, 1946– —Impeachment ; Unemployment ; United States. Congress ; United States. Supreme Court ; Vaccination ; Vaping ; Venezuela ; Veterans ; Violence ; Voting ; Voting age ; Voter suppression ; Washington (D.C.) ; Welfare recipients

Use

Visitors to Dear Vern are invited to scroll through the original unedited email subject lines, answer the polls, and instantly click to see the running tallies. When the site is on display for multiple users, refresh the page to return to the active polling view. Likewise, users may refresh the page to take the polls as many times as they like.

The site functions best on a laptop or desktop computer. Buchanan’s polls as sourced are not mobile-friendly.