American Political Campaigns & Elections

1. Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
2. Daily Kos
3. Washington Monthly's Political Animal
4. Talking Points Memo
5. Kevin Drum [Political MoJo]
6. RealClearPolitics
7. Frum [Daily Beast]
8. PlumLine, Wonkblog & TheFix [WaPo]
9. Mark Ambinder [The Week]
10. Huffington Post
11. CNN's Political Ticker
12. Crooks & Liars
13. Politico
14. Steve Benin [Maddowblog]
15. Vox Pop [American Prospect]

• New York Times Politics [but article clicker is in effect]
• National Journal blogs
• The Hill: News
• New York Magazine's Early and Often
• The Nation
• New Republic
• The Atlantic
• National Review's The Corner
• Reason's Hit and Run
• Salon: Politics
• The Economist's Democracy in America
• Rolling Stone Politics
• Time's Swampland​
• Roll Call
• Grist

Mainstream
Yahoo News | Google News | Reuters | McClatchy | NPR | USA Today | BBC News | CBS News | ABCNews | NBC's FirstRead | The Guardian | Watching America

Alternative
Democracy Now | ThinkProgress | Raw Story | TruthDig | Common Dreams |  TomPaine.com | TruthOut | Al-Jazeera English | Daily Banter | PJ Media | Town Hall

Liberal & Progressive: BalloonJuice, Lefty Blogs: NY, FireDogLake.

Rightwing & Libertarian: Eunomia, Outside the Beltway; AEI-Ideas; Cato @ Liberty; Hot Air; Patterico; Matt Lewis.

Academic Collaboratives: Mischiefs of Faction; The Monkey Cage, Crooked TImber

Contrarians: Little Green Footballs; Mickey Kaus; Charlie Pierce's Politics Blog [Esquire]; Daily Howler

• St. Petersburg Times/CQ's PoliFact
• Annenberg Center's FactCheck
• Washington Post's Fact Checker
• Media Matters for America
• Promise Audit, from National Journal -- has Obama kept his 2008 campaign promises?
• PR Watch

...and watching for the liberal bias in the media: NewsBusters

Poll Aggregators and Meta-Analysis

• Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight (NYT), applying baseball Sabermetrics to politics
• TPM Polltracker -- Poll reporting and averaging
• Sam Wang's Princeton Election Consortium uses a background in neuroscience and biophysics for statistical modeling
• ElectoralVote -- electoral college and Senate race maps
• Votamatic, Drew Linzer (Emery) -- forecasts and analysis for the Presidential election
• Frontloading HQ -- electoral college maps and state by state analysis
• Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball (UVa) -- for Electoral College, Senate, and House races
• Election Projection -- for Electoral College, Senate, and House races (with unskewing by Scott Elliott)
• RAND American Life Panel's Continuous 2012 Presidential Election Poll
• Charlie Cook's Electorial College scorecard is free, but House and Senate analysis is behind a firewall
• Presidential Power, Matthew Dickinson (Middlebury) -- an analysis of Presidential politics and polls

Special

• 270 to Win -- Design your own electoral college map
• Polling Report-- a nonpartisan compilation resource

Voter Guides

• New York State Board of Elections & some local county boards: Tompkins, Cortland, Tioga, and Seneca. -- the best place to go in NY to see who is on your ballot.
• Project VoteSmart supplies "objective facts detailing candidates' backgrounds and issue positions."
• SmartVoter, from League of Women Voters, provides nonpartisan voter information (but LoWV-NY does not participate).

Voter Rights

• The ACLU maintains a Voting Rights page
• BradBlog has an emphasis on voting rights

• FEC's Campaign Finance Disclosure Portal
• OpenSecrets, a guide to money in US Elections from the Center for Responsive Politics.
• Pro Publica's Campaign 2012
• Follow the Money (for state politics)
• Influence Explorer houses datasets for campaign contributions and details about grants, contracts, and lobbying
• Center for Public Integrity & Common Cause frequently take up the cause of campaign finance issues.

For a broader perspective, see the Ithaca College Library Research Guide to Politics.