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Campaign Links
Background Resources on Candidates
- Project Vote Smart: A site with a lot of information: biographical data, campaign finances, issue positions, voting records, interest group ratings, legislation status, issues links, and more!
- Politics1.com State Pages: By state, links to information about State and Congressional Candidates (including their own websites), state parties, and local news sources.
- Lexis-Nexis Universe: (UMich only, requires library password) State profiles and biographical information. Database of local and regional newspapers is also an excellent resource for local coverage of races.
Campaign Financing
- opensecrets.org:Where are candidates getting their money? Contribution reports broken down by geographic area, and interest groups; personal financial disclosures, and more. Sponsored by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Campaign News
- Roll Call Online:Capitol Hill's newspaper. Includes election analyses and odds on the outcomes.
The Polls
- USA Election Polls:This site provides Presidential election poll results from multiple national and state media sources, sortable by state and candidate.
- The Polling Report : Curious about what Americans are thinking? Poll results compiled from multiple news organizations. For politics, primarily focused on Presidential race.
- The Gallup Organization: Gallup Poll results related to Politics & Elections, including trends on Presidential approval, favorability ratings of key political personalities, ratings of Congress, and special interest groups.
- Five Thirty Eight: This website, named after the number of electors in the electoral college, provides polling info, the return on campaign funds by state, and the electoral history of states.
The Parties
