Presidential Election 2008. In this article on our website, Simon Hill gives a guide to the comlexities of the race and some clues as to the possible outcomes

BBC US elections 2008 - Follow the election campaign as it happens with  BBC News On-line

BBC Americas is the BBC News pages covering all aspects of American culture and politics, including the elections.

Politics1 , Founded in 1997, is published as a non-partisan public service to promote fully informed decision-making by the American electorate. It has comprehensive coverage of the election including all the candidates who ever declared from the famous to the obscure.

Project Vote Smart  aims to provide users with  accurate, unbiased and relevant information. As a national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings.

CNN Politics Pages Political coverage from an American  news organisation

The United States Government has a wide range of information the voting system, and an extensive page of links to other websites, including many independent ones.

CNN has a useful web page explaining the electoral college

Below is a list, by no means exhaustive, of some of the contending parties and prospective candidates.

Democrats Abroad

Republicans Abroad UK

Hillary Clinton

John McCain

Ralph Nader

Barack Obama