American Presidency

Videos of potential candidates.

Includes transcripts from the presidential debates, history of the debates, and a voter education section.

Information about presidential debates from 1960-present.

Full text transcripts of nomination acceptance speeches with links to speeches available on YouTube.

Campaign finance data with maps and charts from the Federal Election Commission.

This U.S. agency site includes a number of databases detailing campaign finance data and independent expenditures for candidates. Includes candidate profiles.

Data for campaign contributions from the Sunlight Foundation.

Data on donations to political parties and candidates and the total lobbying spending for years 1998-present with breakdowns by firm.

Information about who has paid for political ads purchased at television stations around the country from the Sunlight Foundation.

Source for campaign finance and lobbying information. Also provides campaign donation and expenditure data from 1979-present.

Produced by the American Museum of the Moving Image this site showcases presidential campaign commercials by election year and issues addressed.

Information about who has paid for political ads purchased at television stations around the country from the Sunlight Foundation.

Presidential election data from 1789-present.

Animated maps of presidential election data at the county level across time (actual returns, margin of victory, party strength, population, voter turnout).

Official state-by-state vote counts in federal elections from 1920 through 2014 from the U.S. House of Representatives.

View the electoral votes, popular votes, electors, and certificates of past presidential elections.

Core data for the archive are state, county and district level election returns for all recent state and federal elections in the United States.

Maps of electoral college votes back to 1789. Also includes voting history and trends by state.