There is no shortage of coverage on the web for the Presidential election that is still more than 9 months away. In many ways, it’s the most important election that happens anywhere in the world, it will define the next four years for us all.

As an ardent political armchair-ist, I thought I might post some of the links I read regularly. Some of these sites will no doubt draw ire from right-thinking people, and those right-thinking people are right, but I want to see all sides since I am trying to be a dispassionate spectator. I will divide the space into Red Sites for the Republicans, Blue Sites for the Democrats, Other Sites for non-party and Informational sites for the impartial ones.

You might want to start with the New York Times guide to the Election Primaries.

Informational sites

Political Base a web 2.0 election site designed to let people comment and track issues, candidates and the money.

Open Secrets Presidential 2008 more information on funding and sources of money

Sourcewatch can be a useful resource for finding out about sites you want background for (though it has been accused of bias itself)

FactCheck.org Another issues site, which Dick Cheney accidentally recommended as “.com”

Other Parties

Guide to American Political Parties note that you probably won’t need to know much about any party other than the GOP and the Dems.

Red Sites

Red State Wonkette for the right?

Drudge Report, Matt Drudge is fast on scandal, but has had some embarrassing retractions.

The Cato Institute is a liberatrian think-tank.

Little Green Footballs is a well-read source of rightwinginess.

Michelle Malkin Conservative Cover Girl.

Instapundit, highly influential on the right and in blogging in general.

Blue Sites

Crooks and Liars mainly youtube and other videos of embarrassing moments for mostly right wing people.

Wonkette hates everyone, but hates the GOP more. Angry and acerbic commentary about politics, with some good DC insider info.

Daily Kos Moulitsas might be a Democratic Party shill, but his site is a must-read.

HuffPost Arguably one of the most-read blogs on the web

Think Progress Another good site for videos and sound bites.

TPM Muckraker The scruffier part of a more respectable blog.

Obviously, you can also get information from the Washington Post, NY Times, Wall Street Journal (if they open up), Financial Times, Economist, Spectator and the rest of the main stream media.

If I can find the time, I will follow this up with info on the candidates themselves.

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