http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/
Chat on-line with presidential candidates and keep up with the political news of the day.

http://www.democrats.org/index.html and http://www.rnc.org
Links to the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee. Each of these pages contains information about the campaign organizations of the two national parties.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/
Go to a map of the United States and click on a state to get information about the politics and elected officials of that state.

http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/icpsr.html
This site, sponsored by the University of California at San Diego, provides access to information from national election studies done by political scientists since 1952. You can find out what voters thought on a broad variety of issues asked in each national election (presidential and most congressional) study.

http://www.politics.com.

Check who donates to which campaign, and keep current with the campaign stories of the day. See the results of the latest polls, and link to other sites.

http://www.commoncause.org/issue_agenda/issues.htm
The home page of Common Cause, the public interest group whose major focus is reforming the campaign finance system. Linked to the page are the group’s reports tracking relevant legislation, periodic reports on campaign spending, and reports on financial ties of those voting against major regulatory legislation such as the tobacco bill.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/president/
The home page for a PBS special "So You Want to Buy a President." Contains much useful data on how much is contributed and who the contributors are.

http://www.fec.gov/index.html
The Federal Election Commission does not have much regulatory power, but it does publish useful reports of campaign spending. This page describes election rules and links to FEC reports on campaign spending and on voter turnout.

http://www.tray.com/FECInfo/
If you want to look at the data available from the Federal Election Commission in a more user-friendly way, you can access this nonpartisan, independent site that allows you to type in an elected official’s name and receive information on contributions to that official. There is also a detailed section on soft-money contributions.

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html
The Document Center of the University of Michigan offers a comprehensive collection of government documents, related news stories, and links to other sites. Among other things, you can find information on campaign financing and reform at this site.

http://www.vote-smart.org/
Vote-Smart offers information on campaign financing, as well as voting.

http://www.opensecrets.org
To find excellent reports on where the money comes from and how it is spent in campaigns, be sure to view the site maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics.