OOOA little history of past campaigns. Were we to focus on actual campaign activities from the birth of the Republic - and we should - we'd find that no matter how appalling modern campaigns can be, it's been worse, much worse.

Read transcripts of present and historical debates - and the public reaction to them.

All the way back to 1789. Includes both national and state maps, results for all the national parties, popular and electoral votes, voter turn-out, broken down by counties or congressional districts. Very impressive.

Along with the usual statistics, it provides brief synopses of the issues involved in individual elections.

A collection of campaign commercials dating to 1952 from the American Museum of the Moving Image.

Mostly news and facts, but a few valuable forays into the history of parties and electioneering.

While the Department of the Interior's atlas covers a wide range of subjects, this link goes directly to its printable maps of presidential elections.

The "Unofficial Homepage of the Electoral College", it is a defense of that institution (and a good source of articles on the topic) as well as a history of presidential elections.

Some statistics going back to the '50s.

The omnibus quick-fact page from InfoPlease. Links to articles on some result pages.