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- American Association of Political Consultants - Bestowers of the Pollie Awards.
- America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from Duke Special Collections - "U.S. presidential campaign memorabilia drawn primarily from the holdings of the Duke University Special Collections Library. The exhibit illustrates the nation's presidential elections in letters, sheet music, leaflets, buttons, and bumper stickers."
- American Attitudes: Program on International Policy Attitudes - "PIPA studies public opinion on international issues. PIPA is a joint program of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland ." World Public Opinion is an online journal "dedicated to in-depth information and analysis on public opinion from around the world on international issues."
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- American Conservative Union
- American Political Science Association (APSA) - Washington, DC.
- American Prospect - "Practical and convincing vision of liberal philosophy, politics, and public life." The magazine is searchable and provides an Archives, with articles listed by subject, category (i.e. Book Reviews, Film Critic etc.), author, issue and month.
- Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: The Clifford H. Baldowski Collection at the Richard B. Russell Library - University of Georgia Libraries collection has 2,500 cartoons from the editorial pages of the Augusta Chronicle, Miami Herald, and Atlanta Constitution. "His work is a rich source for those studying political reorganization in Georgia and the growth of Atlanta as well as the the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, the Vietnam conflict, Middle East tensions, and Watergate."
- Bernstein on Hillary Clinton's ambition: In 'A Woman in Charge,' the Watergate reporter examines her career - on the June. 1, 2007 Today Show, Matt Lauer interviewed Carl Carl Bernstein, author of A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (2007). On the MSNBC web page excerpts from the book were provided including the following:
"After each of Hugh's children was born, he drove the family back to Scranton for a baptism at Court Street Methodist Church [Scranton], where he had been baptized in 1911, and his brothers before and after him. Every summer the Rodhams drove across the Alleghenys for a two-week vacation at a cabin he and his father, with their own hands, had built on Lake Winola, near Scranton, in the rolling Pennsylvania hills. The cabin had no heat, bath, or shower. It was a far different environment than the luxurious vacation cottages of many Park Ridge children on the shores of Lake Michigan or the Wisconsin dells."
- Blogs & Political News Aggregators
- Daily Kos - Created by Markos Moulitsas on on May 26, 2002
- First Read - MSNBC
- Hendrik Hertzbert - New Yorker Magazine. "Notes on politics, mostly."
- Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion - Juan Cole is a Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Here is an excerpt from his blog of September 11, 2007: "The central question is whether the Democrats can force a significant reduction of troops from Iraq on Bush's watch, so as to avoid Iraq becoming exclusively their headache when they (as is likely) take over the White House in January of 2009." (From Can Gen. Petraeus and Ryan Crocker Save the Next Democratic President?)
- Marc Ambinder: A Reported Blog on Politics - Atlantic Magazine
- Memorandum - Political news aggregator
- National Journal
- The Note - Rick Klein, ABC News
- Politico
- Pollster
- Real Clear Politics
- Talking Points Memo (TPM) - Joshua Micah Marshall is the editor and publisher.
- Tapped: The group blog of The American Prospect
- Wonkette: The DC Gossip
- BUBL LINK: Catalogue of selected Internet resources - Political Science
- CNN Political Ticker
- C-SPAN Networks - See also Book TV's Public Lives, History and Encore Booknotes sections. In Capitol Questions, Ilona Nickels, C-SPAN Resident Congressional Scholar, answers questions submitted via email. In C-SPAN Campaign 2000 Video Search, C-SPAN & Virage, Inc. have produced a video search engine for Campaign 2000. Your browser allows you to search C-SPAN campaign footage by keyword and then view speeches by segment or in their entirety. Or, you can read the text." The technology scans archives of speeches, debates, hearings and interviews dating back to 1997. Virage's video search engine is also being used by ABC in NewsClips to search the video archives of World News Tonight and Nightline. Virage Showcase provides links to other searchable video sites.
- Campaign Desk - "Critique and analysis of 2004 campaign coverage from Columbia Journalism Review."
- Campaign Finance Reform: A Sourcebook - Brookings Institution site "brings together key documents (statutes, court decisions, FEC advisory opinions, draft legislation) and scholarly articles that are essential references for any informed discussion of campaign finance reform".
- Campaign Finance Site - American University School of Communications.
- CampaignMoney.com
- Canadian Public Policy (CPP) - Journal is fully searchable and "abstracts and online articles are provided commencing with volume 16 (1990)."
- Center for Public Integrity - See the career patron lists and lobbyist lists in Charles Lewis' The Buying of the President 2004.
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency - Washington Post series and winner of the 2007 George Polk Award for Political Reporting.
- Christian Coalition
- Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) - "Created by the late industrialist J. Peter Grace and nationally-syndicated columnist Jack Anderson to expose and help eliminate wasteful government spending."
- Common Cause - Washington-based public interest group promoting campaign finance reform. Their Soft Money Laundromat is a searchable database of special interest soft money contributions to the Democratic and Republican national party committees.
- Congress.Org - "Complete and reliable directory of information about the members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate." A joint venture of Issue Dynamics and Capitol Advantage.
- Congressional Quarterly - Much of this site is available to subscribers only
- Cornell University Collection of Political Americana - Over 2,000 "presidential promotional and commemorative items dating from 1789 to 1980."
- CNN: AllPolitics - Provides Archives dating back to 1996.
- CQ Money Line - Campaign finance site created by Kent Cooper and Tony Raymond, now part of Congressional Quarterly Inc.
- Daily Republican Newspaper
- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index - Over 60 daily Editorial Cartoons.
- Death of the Father: An anthropology of ends in political authority - A project of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, in which an international team of anthropologists and artists "address the end of an authority crisis that spanned most of this century, and that crystallized around the regimes of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and the State Socialist systems of East Germany, Yugoslavia, Romania, and the Soviet Union." There is material on Mussolini, Hitler, Hirohito, Ceausescu, Stalin and Tito.
- Democratic Leadership Council - Washington, D.C. organization publishes the New Democrat, a bimonthly magazine, and provides archives for 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996 and 1995.
- Democratic National Committee
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
- Full-text of the out-of-print book edited by Philip P. Wiener, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74. Topics include nature, humanity, art, history, politics, religion and philosophy, math and logic. Made available by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.
- Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall
- Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons - 388 political cartoons published by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) in the newspaper PM during the years 1941-43. From the Dr. Seuss Collection in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego.
- Drudge Report - Matt Drudge. Has a useful collection of links to news resources and columnists.
- E - The People - Helps you locate e-mail addresses for 140,000 local, state or federal officials. For more on the site, see Steve Silberman's article in the 7 July 1998 Wired News, Turnkey Democracy.
- Eagleton Public Opinion Polls - Center for Public Interest Polling site is searchable.
- EMILY's List - Political network for Pro-Choice Democratic women.
- Factcheck - "Nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases." A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. In August 2006 named by Time.com as "One of 25 Sites We Can't Live Without."
- Federal Election Commission - Includes election statistics, and financial information about candidates, parties and PACs. Campaign Finance Reports and Data.
- FedNet - Live coverage of House and Senate Floor Debates, Hearings and Special Events. (A subscription is required for access to most archived material.)
- Free Speech Internet Television - Audio/video archive of progressive resources.
- Freedom Works: the Office of the House Majority Leader - Dick Armey. Provides Weekly Radio Addresses in RealAudio.
- Fund for the Republic Archives (1928-1964) - Princeton University Library holds the archives the Fund for the Republic, founded to protect civil rights and civil liberties. "The records provide an invaluable look at the Fund's struggle to uphold the basic principles of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights during the years of McCarthyism and its aftermath." Clifford Case, Republican Congressman from New Jersey was the first president of the organization. See also the Guide to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection, 1950-1991 at Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Fundrace - Research sources of political campaign contributions by city and by neighborhood.
- Gallup Organization
- George J. Mitchell Papers - Bowdoin College site "dedicated to providing information about, and access to, the papers of Senator George J. Mitchell. The collection documents the Senator's professional and political career, including his 1974 gubernatorial campaign, his career as senator from Maine, his six years of service to the nation as Senate majority leader, and his work in Northern Ireland. The materials in the collection consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial records, press materials, and other printed matter, as well as memorabilia. The site also offers links to related information about American government, politics, and legislation.
- Green Parties Worldwide
- Guide to Political Research On-Line - Richard Jensen, Professor Emeritus of History, U of Illinois-Chicago, has assembled a very impressive list of resources. See also his Scholars' Guide to WWW which has a Political Science section.
- Harvard Law School Forum - With RealAudio sound files of Past Programs dating back to 1954 featuring an impressive array of speakers ranging from Walter Reuther to Barry Goldwater. Recent Speakers have included Charlton Heston, Asa Hutchinson,Vince McMahon, Mario Cuomo, Ralph Nader, Jack Gargan, Helen Thomas, Stephen Reinhardt, Nadine Strossen, Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, Jim Dwyer, Bill Kovach, Richard Lewontin, Michael Seidman and Arun Gandhi.
- Harvard University Institute of Politics Forum Video Archive
- The Hill: the Capital Newspaper
- History and Politics Out Loud - Searchable archive of politically significant audio materials. (Jerry Goldman and Northwestern University.)
- Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States - From George Washington to Bill Clinton. (From the Bartleby Library.)
- Institute of Political Studies / Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris - Paris. You can search the library catalog using an English interface. Try a search for the author Gilles Kepel who has written an number of interesting books and articles about Islam.
- Internal Reveune Service Political Organization Section 527 Search Form 8871 Filings - You can browse an alphabtical list or search for a political organization name by keyword or phrase. (See Political Organizations for a detailed explanation of IRS rules regarding political parties, campaign committees for candidates for federal, state, or local office, and political action committees.) A new law (P.L. 106-230) imposes three different reporting and disclosure requirements on section 527 organizations. It requires section 527 political organizations to file periodic reports with the IRS. These political organizations are required to report the names and addresses (and occupation and employer if an individual) of all persons who contribute $200 or more after July 1, 2000, and of all persons receiving expenditures of $500 or more after July 1, 2000. In the Internal Revenue Service Political Organization Section 527 Search Form 8872 Filings there are links to the actual filings (in pdf format).
- Internet Archive - "Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public..." The Election Collection is an "archive digital materials covering the Election of 2000. It contains 800 gigabytes of data gathered from 8/1/2000 to 1/21/2001."
- Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) - "On-line futures market where contract payoffs are based on real-world events such as political outcomes, companies' earnings per share (EPS), and stock price returns. The market is operated by University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business faculty as an educational and reseach project." Bets limited to $500. See The Information Age: Trading on the Wisdom of Crowds by L. Gordon Grovitz, Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2008. "...Candidates who rely on polls get second-best answers on how they're doing or what positions are helping their cause. A politician with faith in markets and the populist wisdom of crowds could look to predictive markets instead."
- Jim Romenesko's MediaNews - Jim Romenesko's digest of media news for the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based non-profit school for journalists.
- John F. Kennedy School of Government - Harvard University.
Live from the Forum provides archived broadcasts of speeches by "high-profile players in national and international politics" (often available with printed transcripts).
- League of Conservation Voters - Known for their annual environmental scorecard on how Congress votes on the environment.
- League of Women Voters of the United States - With links to State & Local Leagues and Democracy Network.
- Libertarian Party
- Lijphart Election Archive - "Research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries" housed at the University of California, San Diego
- Long March of Newt Gingrich - Frontline, January 16, 1996. Interviews, works & writing, chronology.
- Marxists Internet Archive - Ken Campbell
- McLaughlin Group - PBS
- Mother Jones Magazine - Includes full-text archive of back issues from 1996 to September/October 2000. The Mother Jones 400 is a list of the nation's top contributors.
- MSNBC News
- Museum of Broadcast Communications - Chicago. You can Search the Archives Catalog. See their Great Debate & Beyond: The History of Televised Presidential Debates.
- Nation - With access to selected articles in the archive. Also provides the most recent show of the 'broadcast edition' of RadioNation in RealAudio.
- National Association of State Election Directors -
- National Center for Policy Analysis - "Established in 1983 in an effort to provide policy makers with timely, detailed and accurate information about the impact of proposed policies and legislation." Cybrary provides a list of online studies.
- National Committee for an Effective Congress - Offers acess to their Newsletter and to a collection of links to Progressive resources on the Web.
- National Election Studies - "Data on voting, public opinion and political participation that serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, and policy makers."
- National Lobbyist Directory
- National Organization for Women (NOW)
- National Review Online - "America's Conservative Magazine"
- New Republic - Sampling of articles from the print edition, updated every Thursday afternoon.
- New York State Board of Elections - Election Law was recently amended to provide for mandatory electronic financial disclosure by political committees registered with the State Board of Elections. Information on political contributions can be found in Campaign Finance. You can view contributors, committees, an Alphabetical list of Active Committees.
- New York State Democratic Committee
- New Statesman
- New York Times: Politics - See also Campaign 2004.
- Noam Chmosky Archive - One of America's most
prominent political dissidents, the site contains the full text to many of Chomsky's major works, the complete audio to several important lectures, and numerous articles, interviews and speeches. (Tom Lane, ZNet)
- OCPF Electronic Filing & Campaign Disclosure System - The Office of Campaign and Political Finance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- OMB Watch - Group follows activities of the House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Offers Budget News and Regulatory News.
- Online NewsHour - PBS. With Site Index. Has RealAudio archive.
- Online Resource Guide to Political Inquiry - Michael Dartnell of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal has gathered an impressive collection of links to political inquiry resources worldwide. There are 31 categories including The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Terrorism, Feminism and French Politics.
- Open Secrets - Center for Responsive Politics tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. It provides detailed campaign finance profiles for politicians. In Donor Lookup you can find individual and soft money contributors by name, zip code, employer, candidate or recipient. The section on Political Action Committees is searchable and organized by category. State Information Directory features campaign finance profiles of the 106th Congress (updated monthly). Lobbyist Spending shows a industry-by-industry breakdown of spending
and has a searchable database of individual lobbyists & lobbying firms.
- Opinion Journal - Selected articles from the Wall Street Journal. They provide links to our favorite sites.
- Opinion Polls - PollingReport.com is a service of the Polling Report, an independent, nonpartisan resource on American public opinion, published in Washington, D.C. Has a Table of Contents. Other public opinion resources include Eagleton Poll Archive from the Center for Public Interest (searchable), Gallup Organization, National Opinion Research Center, Marist Poll, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, Public Agenda Online and Survey Research Resources a collection of links to opinion polls.
- Pacronyms - "Alphabetical list of acronyms, abbreviations, initials, and common names of federal political action committees (PACs)... Includes the PACRONYM, full committee name, city and state of its address, FEC I.D. number, and the name of its sponsoring, connected, or affiliated organization (if not readily identifiable from the full committee name). (Federal Election Commission).
- PoliSci.com - Over 3,000 links to political resources
- Political Information - Search engine for politics and policy.
- Political Graveyard - Lawrence Kestenbaum's database of historic cemeteries ("the Web site that tells where the dead politicians are buried").
- Political Points: A selective guide to political sites on the Internet - Maintained by Rich Meislin, New York Times.
- Political Science Quarterly - Table of contents and full-text of featured articles
- Political Science Virtual Library - Thomas Hartley and Chase Harrison, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs
- Political Site of the Day - Kessler Freedman Inc.
- Political Studies Association - London Guildhall University
- Politics.com
- Politics Online: Internet Tools for Politics - International political and public affairs consulting firm.
- Poll and Survey Data and Findings - Princeton University Survey Research Center
- PollingReport.com: Public Opinion Online - Service of the Polling Report, an independent, nonpartisan resource on American public opinion, published in Washington, D.C. Has a Table of Contents.
- Portrait of America - Public opinion data.
- Presidential Elections Maps: 1860-1996 - Maps showing state-by-state winners, along with percentage of vote received, for each election; University of Virginia
- Presidential Election Statistics - From 1789 to 1996 from MultiEducator Inc.
- Presidential Libraries - National Archives and Records Administration
- Presidential Tax Returns - Tax History Project at Tax Analysts
- Progressive Policy Institute
- Project Vote Smart - Non-partisan organization focused on providing information to citizens has links to political parties online.
- Protest.Net: A Calendar of Protest, Meetings and Conferences - Evan Henshaw-Plath provides worldwide protest schedules and links.
- Public Agenda Online: Public Opinion and Public Policy - "Nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1975 by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance." Excellent resource for such issues as Abortion, Right to die, Illegal Drugs, Gay Rights and America's Global Role.A similar resource is Speakout.com.
- The Public Eye - Quarterly publication of the nonprofit Political Research Associates
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States - New volume added to the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (William J. Clinton, 1995, Vol. 1).
- Ralph Waldo Emerson McGill Papers - As editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, McGill played a major role in the fight for civil rights in the South. With Table of Contents. Over 2,000 of his columns from 1950 to 1969 have been digitized (in Series IV Writings 1913-1969, Subseries 5. Book reviews and miscellaneous writings, Box 44, Folder 3-4) and are viewable online in pdf format. The collection is searchable. For example, a 1 January 1966 column, Maturity in Civil Rights (no. 02520100090200070330000) discusses the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). In Assists to 'Black Power' (no. 02520100090200072066000), 17 July 1967, McGill comments on a recent NEA report finding Alabama schools for Blacks "miserably inferior." (Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory (SAGE).)
- Real Clear Politics - "Opinion, news, analysis, videos and polls."
- Republican National Committee
- Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
- Roll Call Online - "Newspaper of Capitol Hill since 1955"
- Roper Center - Public opinion research at the University of Connecticut issues Public Perspective six times a year.
- Salon Magazine: Politics
- Senate Republican Conference - Has Radio clips of Republican Senators
- Slate - Political and cultural journal. See Campaign 2008 and Today's Papers.
- SpeakOut.com - "Politics, activism, political issues, government and elections." For more about the site, see the July 17, 2000 article in the New York Times, Two New Web Sites Cover Political Races by Rebecca Fairley Raney (free registration).
- State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGS) - Provides a Congressional Scorecard, research on campaign finance reform and links to state PIRGS.
- Teaching Politics: Techniques & Technologies - Site developed by William J. Ball, Department of Political Science, The College of New Jersey includes Images of American Political History, a collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History.
- Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) - Organization associated with Syracuse University provides "independent, and nonpartisan information on federal law enforcement." More specifically they offer "data gathering, data research and data distribution. describing the enforcement activities and staffing patterns of the FBI, the IRS, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms." A valuable resource for journalists, lawyers, public interest groups, businessmen and researchers. (Free registration.)
- University of Michigan Documents Center: Election 2000 - Links to sites about issues, political parties, lobbying groups and candidates.
- U.S. House of Representatives - Legislative news, information about members, committees, and organizations.
- U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leadership - House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt
- U.S. Legislative Branch - Library of Congress
- U.S. National Debt Clock
- U.S. Senate
- Vanishing Voter - "Project to study and invigorate the American electoral process." (Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University.)
- Washington Post - Full-text and searchable. (See Nation and Politics, OnPolitics and Editorials.) Washington Post Radio provides local, national and international news and commentary. See The Sound of A Newspaper: Post Radio Hits the Air by Paul Farhi, Washington Post, March 31, 2006.
- Washington Week - PBS public affairs program features journalists discussing major news events. Has a searchable video database back to July 21, 2000.
- Washington Wire - Blog of "news, analysis and buzz from inside and outside the Beltway" from Susan Davis and reporters of the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau.
- Washingtonian Magazine Online - Monthly
- Weekly Standard - "Nation's foremost conservative weekly magazine"
- White House
- White House Correspondents' Association
- Yahoo! - Politics