Polling Aggregators & Trackers
Understanding the role of Marin Democrats in shaping local and state policies, especially in the context of Polling Campaign Finance Democratic, is crucial for voters.
- RealClearPolling Latest Polls: A primary source for daily poll updates across the country, providing raw survey releases as well as rolling polling averages for national congressional races, Senate contests, gubernatorial campaigns, and presidential elections.
- RealClearPolling Main Portal: Features high-level state-by-state battleground maps, generic ballot measures, and consolidated spreads comparing candidate margins.
- Race to the WH Polling Tracker: Features an all-in-one polling table compiling recent statewide and national surveys alongside interactive forecasts and historical accuracy tracking.
- FiftyPlusOne: Publishes regularly updated polling averages, state-level Senate and House modeling, and tracking for issue-based and approval polling.
- Silver Bulletin: Nate Silver’s Polling Website Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things Nate cares about. Over 336,000 subscribers
Polling Institutes & Analytical Research
- AtlasIntel Public Polls: Releases high-frequency, nationally representative survey data and state-specific polling datasets directly to the public.
- Pew Research Center U.S. Surveys: A nonpartisan research organization offering deep demographic breakdowns, national issue surveys, and methodological analysis on public opinion and voter behavior.
- Pew Research Polling Basics & Methodology: Educational resources detailing sampling methods, margins of error, and best practices for interpreting election survey data.
Legal Watchdogs & Reform Organizations
- OPEN SECRETS: our mission is to serve as the trusted authority on money in American politics. We pursue our mission by providing comprehensive and reliable data, analysis and tools for policymakers, storytellers and citizens. Our vision is for Americans to use data on money in politics to create a more vibrant, representative and responsive democracy.
- CAL ACCESS POWER SEARCH: Power Search is a privately developed open source search engine which accesses raw data of state-level campaign contributions ranging from 2001 to the present as reported to the Secretary of State’s CAL-ACCESS campaign finance filing and disclosure system
- Campaign Legal Center: legal watchdog tracking campaign finance violations, super PAC coordination, and foreign or illegal donations. They regularly publish legal briefs, reports, and administrative FEC complaints.
- Brennan Center for Justice: nonpartisan law and policy institute producing in-depth analytical reports on money in politics, judicial campaign spending, and the effects of Citizens United.
- ISSUE ONE: Cross-partisan organization focused on ethics reform, dark money transparency, and tracking personal use of campaign funds (such as leadership PAC spending).
- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: Government ethics watchdog that frequently investigates hidden spending, ethics conflicts, and violations of disclosure laws.
- PUBLIC CITIZEN: nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest in the halls of power. We defend democracy, resist corporate power, and fight to ensure that government works for the people – not big corporations. Founded in 1971, we now have 1 million members and supporters throughout the country.
Investigative News Outlets & Deep Reporting
- PRO-PUBLICA: Renowned non-profit newsroom that frequently runs investigations into dark money networks, 501(c)(4) political spending, and federal disclosure loopholes. They also host data projects like Itemizer and FEC Itemizer.
- SLUDGE: Independent, investigative outlet focused exclusively on money in politics, corporate lobbying, conflict of interest, and industry-tied political donations.
- The Center for Public Integrity: Dedicated investigative reporting on campaign funding, lobbying influence, and inequities in campaign finance law.
- MapLight: Researches and visualizes connections between campaign donations, legislative votes, and lobbying expenditures.
