With the 2012 US presidential election heating up, we've selected the top 50 Twitter accounts for following the latest news and analysis, so you can keep up with all the talking points, attack ads, surprises and polling throughout the 2012 campaign as they happen.
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This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of the biggest accounts – just those that best cover the tide of information and activity taking place. That means news, as it breaks, and what it means to the parties involved.
Have we left out a must-read Twitter account? Make your case in the comments below, or on Twitter by using the #uspoliticslive hashtag. You can read the entire list here, and you can subscribe to the list with a click via your Twitter account. And you can always follow me @RichardA for the Guardian's live coverage of the 2012 campaign.
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Pollsters
Journalists
News feeds
Pundits
Political parties
Pollsters
Mark Blumenthal @MysteryPollster
Senior polling editor for the Huffington Post
Harry Enten @ForecasterEnten
Guardian polling analyst
Gallup News @gallupnews
Gallup polling news and tracking data
Public Policy Polling @ppppolls
North Carolina-based polling company with a good track record
Scott Rasmussen @RasmussenPoll
President of Rasmussen Reports polling company
Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight
Statistician blogging for the New York Times
Washington Post polling @postpolls
Coverage of polls and polling
Journalists
Molly Ball @mollyesque
Politics writer for the Atlantic
Sarah Boxer @Sarah_Boxer
CBS News political reporter covering Mitt Romney
Jordan Fabian @Jordanfabian
Political Editor for Univision News
Beth Fouhy @bfouhy
AP political reporter covering 2012 presidential campaign
Maggie Haberman @maggiepolitico
Reporter for Politico
Kasie Hunt @kasie
Political reporter for the Associated Press
Mark Knoller @markknoller
White House correspondent for CBS News Radio
Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh
Executive editor of the Hotline
Ryan Lizza @RyanLizza
Washington correspondent for the New Yorker
Ewen MacAskill @ewenmacaskill
Washington DC bureau chief for the Guardian
Erin McPike @ErinMcPike
National political reporter for Real Clear Politics
Mike Memoli @mikememoli
Politics reporter in the Tribune Washington DC bureau
Sabrina Siddiqui @SabrinaSiddiqui
Politics Reporter at the Huffington Post
Ben Smith @BuzzFeedBen
Editor-in-Chief of BuzzFeed.com
Felicia Sonmez @feliciasonmez
Election 2012 blogger with the Washington Post
Sam Stein @samsteinhp
Political Editor and White House correspondent for Huffington Post
Juana Summers @jmsummers
Politico reporter covering 2012 presidential race
Jake Tapper @jaketapper
ABC News senior White House correspondent
Byron York @ByronYork
Chief political correspondent, Washington Examiner
News feeds
BuzzFeed Politics @BuzzFeedPol
News feed from the BuzzFeed Politics team
CNN Politics @CNNPolitics
News from CNN's political team
Christian Heinze @cpheinze
Breaking news on the presidential election and other races
Taegan Goddard @pwire
Taegan Goddard's long-running Political Wire blog
Politics Now @PoliticsNowLAT
Latest from the LA Times Washington DC bureau
New York Times Politics @nytimespolitics
National political news from NYTimes.com
Politico 2012 @POLITICO2012
News, analysis and opinion about the 2012 presidential election
PolitiFact @politifact
Tweets from a nonpartisan politics fact-checking website
Pundits
Ben Domenech @bdomenech
Editor of the Transom
Erick Erickson @ewerickson
Editor-in-chief of RedState.com
Larry Sabato @LarrySabato
Director of the University of Virginia's centre for politics
Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox
Guardian US politics opinionator
Donna Brazile @donnabrazile
Former Democratic political strategist
Chuck Todd @chucktodd
Political director of NBC News
Political parties
David Axelrod @davidaxelrod
Senior advisor to Barack Obama
Bill Burton @billburton716
Senior strategist for Priorities USA pro-Obama super pac
Stephanie Cutter @stefcutter
Deputy Campaign Manager for Obama 2012
Kirsten Kukowski @kakukowski
RNC Press Secretary
Ben LaBolt @BenLaBolt
Press secretary, Obama for America campaign
Barack Obama @BarackObama
Obama 2012 campaign account
Mitt Romney @MittRomney
Republican presidential candidate
Andrea Saul @andreamsaul
Romney for President campaign press secretary
Lis Smith @Lis_Smith
Director of rapid response, Obama for America campaign
Ryan Williams @RyanGOP
Spokesman, Romney for President campaign
To read live tweets from the entire list, click here.
