POLS 121: Introduction to American Politics (BMC)

Ballotpedia contains encyclopedia articles about races and candidates, as well as analysis. Be sure to use both the left-hand and right-hand navigation options.

If you can't access the Almanac using the link above, use this link, then choose the link that says National Journal Publications from the View Online options, and look for the Almanac option at the top of the page.

Find all election results for presidential, gubernatorial and congressional elections from 1789-present.

For each state, results for House elections are broken down by district, for Senate elections they are broken down by county.

This site has a nice list of all the states with a link to the Secretary of State or other Election results page for each state.

Lots of data about campaign spending in terms of money raised and spent, can look up by candidate or contributor

This site breaks down campaign spending based on the vendor information they submit to the FEC into nine categories.

"Since 1994, The Hill has reported on the intersection of politics and business... for non-partisan coverage of all factors in legislative decisions. It offers objective and in-depth coverage of Congress, the Administration, business and lobbying, campaigns and more."

Here is a list of major metropolitan newspapers that are linked to the coverage we have in Access World News.

If the location you need isn't on the list above, you can search this list of sources by the location, eg "Houston".