U.S. Government Publications

Campaigns & Elections

U.S. Government Sources

• Election Statistics - official vote counts from the Clerk of the House, 1920-date
• Federal Election Commission (FEC)
• National Archives and Records Administration: U.S. Electoral College
• Presidential Elections and the Electoral College

Non-governmental Organizations

Campaign Finance

• Campaign Finance Information Center - help follow the money trail
• Campaign Finance Institute - issues and analysis in campaign finance
• Center for Responsive Politics - campaign funding data.
• MAPLight.org - search through text of bills, voting records, and campaign contributions
• Opensecrets - "your guide to the money in U.S. elections"
• Political Money Line - processed data from the FEC.
• 527 Committee Activity - PACs and "soft money"

Election Studies

• Ballotpedia - a wiki for all things relating to voting - such as "citizen initiatives, ballot access, petition drives, initiative and referendum for political change, recall elections, school district bond issues and associated subjects."
• CQ 2006 Election Results Map - from Congressional Quarterly
• Election 2004 - from the Univ. of Michigan. Some of the links (clearly marked) are for U.Mich. only
• Electionline.org - by the Election Reform Information Project
• FairVote: the Center for Voting and Democracy - advocates election reforms
• The Great Debates and Beyond - the history of televised presidential debates
• National Commission on Federal Election Reform
• National Election Studies - data on voting, public opinion, and political participation
• National Voting Rights Institute -
  
  
• Election 2008 - from CNN
• NPR - Election 2008

Candidate and Issue Information

• FactCheck - sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy Center and the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
• PolitiFact.com - a joint venture of Congressional Quarterly inc. and the St. Petersburg (FL) Times
• Poynter Online: Presidential Debates -
• Project Vote Smart: data on legislators and links to political organizations and sites
• Record of American Democracy Project - aggregate data set on American politics, for 1984-1990