We've selected the top 50 Twitter accounts for following the latest US election news and political analysis, so you can keep up with all the controversy, surprises and polling throughout the campaign as they happen.
This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of the biggest or best known accounts. This is the Twitter accounts that we judge to be the most influential and smartest on all shades of the political spectrum, based on best use of Twitter through frequency, aggregation and interaction.
Did we miss out a brilliant Twitter account that should be on this list? Make your case in the comments below. You can read the whole list here, and you can subscribe to the whole list with a single click from your Twitter account. And you can always follow me on @RichardA for the Guardian's up to the minute coverage of US politics.
Journalists
Ben Smith @benpolitico
Hyperactive politics blogger for Politico
Dave Weigel @daveweigel
Political blogger for Slate, specialises in Tea Party and conservative coverage
Felicia Sonmez @fixfelicia
Political blogger with The Washington Post
Taegan Goddard @pwire
Veteran Political Wire blogger with remarkable news judgment
Susan Page @SusanPage
Washington bureau chief of USA Today
Alex Wagner @alex_wags
White House Correspondent for AOL's Politics Daily website
Reid Wilson @HotlineReid
Editor of The Hotline, part of the National Journal
Phil Elliott @PElliottAP
Covers national politics and elections for the Associated Press
Beth Reinhard @bethreinhard
Covering Florida politics for the Miami Herald
Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance
Political blogger at the Washington Post
Mike Memoli @mikememoli
Reporter in the Tribune Washington DC bureau for the Los Angeles Times (among other Tribune papers)
Erin McPike @ErinMcPike
National political reporter for Real Clear Politics
Mark Knoller @markknoller
White House correspondent for CBS News Radio
Suzy Khimm @SuzyKhimm
Political reporter for Mother Jones
Jake Tapper @jaketapper
ABC News senior White House correspondent
News feeds
NPR Politics @nprpolitics
Political coverage from National Public Radio News
McClatchy DC @McClatchyDC
Washington DC bureau of the McClatchy Newspapers chain
Swing State Project @SwingState
Democrat-orientated highly detailed campaign and election news
Wonkette @Wonkette
Political snark and gossip from the left
GOP12 @GOP12
Breaking news on the likely Republican presidential candidates and other races
Senate US @senatus
Non-partisan coverage of the US Senate
PolitiFact @politifact
Tweets from a nonpartisan politics fact-checking website
Cook Political Report @CookPolitical
Twitter feed for Charlie Cook's respected forecasting outfit
Pundits
Liz Mair @LizMair
Former RNC online communications director, Arsenal fan
Larry Sabato @LarrySabato
Director of the University of Virginia's centre for politics
David Wasserman @Dave_Wasserman
House of Representatives analyst at the Cook Political Report
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox
Serial blogger and DC politics junkie
Sam Graham-Felsen @samgf
Former chief blogger for the Obama campaign in 2008, now a new media consultant
Donna Brazile @donnabrazile
Veteran Democratic political strategist
Chuck Todd @chucktodd
Political analyst for NBC and MSNBC
On the left
Christina Bellantoni @cbellantoni
Covering the White House for Talking Points Memo
Atrios @Atrios
Pioneer blogger and acid-witted tweeter Duncan Black
Nico Pitney @nicopitney
National editor at the Huffington Post
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
Influential progressive politics blogger for Salon.com
The Wonk Room @wonkroom
Collective news blog of the Centre for American Progress Action Fund
Steve Benen @stevebenen
Blogger at the Washington Monthly
Alan Colmes @AlanColmes
Recovering ex-host of Hannity and Colmes, surprisingly good Twitter feed
On the right
Erick Erickson @ewerickson
Editor-in-chief of RedState.com and Tea Party favourite
Mindy Finn @mindyfinn
Republican new media operative
Doug Mataconis @dmataconis
Virginia lawyer and libertarian blogger
Timothy Carney @TPCarney
Author and columnist for the Washington Examiner
Josh Barro @jbarro
Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
Mark Hemingway @Heminator
Washington Examiner blogger
Reihan Salam @reihansalam
Conservative political writer and fellow at the New America Foundation
Political parties
Republican Study Committee @RepublicanStudy
Influential caucus of House conservatives
Nathan Daschle @nathandaschle
Executive director of Democratic Governors Association
Pollsters
Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight
The pollster's pollster, now blogging for the New York Times
Public Policy Polling @ppppolls
North Carolina-based polling company with a good track record
Mark Blumenthal @MysteryPollster
Blogger and founder of Pollster.com, now migrated to Huffington Post
Scott Rasmussen @RasmussenPoll
President of Rasmussen Reports polling company
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