Elections

Agencies

Federal Election Commission: This agency's website contains links to laws and regs, campaign finance data, and forms needed to start your own PAC.

Voting and Registration (CENSUS): This webpage from the Current Population Survey has biennial data going back to 1998 and historical time series data going back to 1964.

Voting America: This website from the University of Richmond has cinematic maps, interactive maps and commentary concerning Presidential elections from 1984 onward.
County and City Data Books: This site from the University of Virginia includes historical data of presidential election voting by county from 1944-2000.
Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections: This site from David Leip has national statistics from 1789 to present as well as maps.

Project Vote Smart: Issue positions, campaign finance, and voting records are some of the things you'll find at this premiere political website.
VOTE411.org: This website sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education fund has everything you need to know about voting in your state.
Map the Candidates (Slate): The site allows you to access videos and other information by looking at a map where you can set the timeline, pick the date to see who was where, and what they were doing on the campaign trail.
American National Election Studies (ANES): This site is a collaboration between Stanford University and the University of Michigan has data concerning the "causes and consequences of voting behavior and electoral outcomes." Data back to 1948.
Pew Research Center: Find political polling results and analysis, commentary, datasets and more.
Pollster: Analysis of polling data from various sources.

C-SPAN is providing access to video clips concerning the election.: News and video clips of campaign speeches, etc..
Politico: Political news and commentary.
Campus Politico: Political news targeted to college students.
CQ Politics (Congressional Quarterly): Political news concerning campaigns for president, house and senate seats and governorships.
CNNPolitics.com: Political news and analysis from CNN.
America's Election HQ (Fox News): Election coverage from FoxNews.
Campaign '08: Presidential campaign coverage from CBS.
Decision 08 Dashboard: Campaign news and analysis from MSNBC.
Vote 08: Political News and analysis from ABC News.
Politics (NYT): Political coverage from the New York Times.
Campaign U.: This election blog from the Chronicle of Higher Education focuses on policy issues of the candidates related to higher education.
Indecision 2008 (Comedy Central): Political coverage from a skewed angle.