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Ballotpedia is an online, nonprofit encyclopedia founded in 2007 which offers, "neutral, accurate, and verifiable information on government officials and the offices they hold, political issues and public policy, elections, candidates, and the influencers of politics." It has been rated by Media Bias Fact Check as one of the most highly factual and least biased sources of information.

I Side With provides information on candidate positions, and offers a "Quiz" you can take to compare your opinions of policies to those of politicians to see whose platform best aligns with your preferences.

Created by the founders of Snopes fact-checking website, this is a collection of the positions of major political candidates as taken from their public quotes and comments.

"Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy."

Policy 2020 provides, "fact-based guides to 2020 election policy issues by Brookings experts." The Brookings Institute has received the highest possible factual rating by Media Bias Fact Check, and is classified as having a left-center bias.

Politifact is owned by the non-profit journalism and news research center The Poynter Institute. It focuses on statements made by politicians, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009.

"Online political ads are often only seen by their target audience — making them difficult to fact-check. In order to shine a light on political advertising on Facebook, ProPublica built a tool that allows Facebook users to automatically send us the political ads that were displayed on their News Feeds."

The Museum of the Moving Image has created "The Living Room Candidate" with over 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952.

"This lesson allows students to consider how different people prioritize and even define their personally held values in different ways. In this lesson, students will assess the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the 2020 election, identify and prioritize the values that shape their personally held beliefs, explore the presidential candidates’ positions on key policy issues, and gather evidence from news articles and public opinion polls to analyze an issue and its role in the 2020 U.S. presidential election."

There are 538 electors in the US electoral college. The website 538 was founded by statistician Nate Silver and analyzes poll data to forecast the winners of elections. Rated by Media Bias Fact Check as highly factual with a left-center bias.

Gallup is a private global analytics firm whose public opinion polls have been rated by Media Bias Fact Check as highly factual and least biased.

Rasmussen Reports is a polling firm rated by Media Bias Fact Check as highly factual with a right-center bias.

Real Clear Politics is a polling data aggregator rated by Media Bias Fact Check as mostly factual and right-leaning.

Reuters is a news organization founded in 1851 in the United Kingdom. It has been rated by Media Bias Fact Check as one of the most highly factual and least biased news sources.

Sabato's Crystal Ball analyzes political trends and tries to forecast - or predict - the winners of major races including the Presidency, Senate and House of Representatives.