As the election season heats up, your audience will be looking for as much political information as possible. And with the recent explosive growth of political news sources of all kinds, you'll need an incredible depth of information in order to compete. AP Elections Online provides comprehensive coverage of local, state, and national elections to enhance your station's Web site. The service includes extensive news and pre-election content throughout the year, and results for all 50 state and national races.

Topics and content covered by AP Elections Online include:

Political News

• AP Political Topic Report: Breaking news covering national elections, political spending, and sources of campaign contributions, PACs, political profiles, debates, key political visits, voting trends, voter registration, political polls, endorsements, and new issue groups.
• AP Convention Wire: An additional service offered during presidential nominating conventions that includes stories, complete text of "prepared and delivered" speeches, party platform and position-paper texts, polls, daybook, AP's own delegate count and information on the host cities.

Pre-election Content

• General Election Bios: Extensive information for all major party candidates includes bios, political history, and analysis.
• Primary Election Challenger Bios: Brief profiles of major party primary election challengers
• State Legislature Incumbents Bios: Brief profiles of state Senate and House incumbents.
• Headshots: Available for approximately 90% of major-party federal and gubernatorial candidates. Headshots are Web quality - 640 x 480 resolution.
• State Demographic/Political Profiles: Brief demographic and party breakdowns by state and office, with analysis of state's politics by AP's political writers.
• Congressional District Profiles
• Historical Votes: Official primary and general election returns for president from 1988 through 2000 and Congress and governor from 1992 through 2002.
• Poll Tracker: Sampling of public opinion polls on the elections, president, parties, and current issues.
• Campaign Finance: Overview of candidate financial activity for major/minor-party congressional and presidential candidates.
• Individual Contributions: lists "soft money" contributions of $100,000 or more by individuals to major/minor-party congressional and presidential candidates.
• Political Action Committee Contributions: lists contributions by PACs to major/minor-party congressional and presidential candidates.
• Delegate Information: Twice-daily updates on the convention delegate counts for all primary candidates once the primary elections start in February. In addition, a variety of tables will be delivered on each primary night with AP's best estimate of delegate allocation for each live election that night. As the convention dates near, AP will provide profile information for each delegate available.
• Political Daybooks: Up-to-the-minute information on all political events and candidate events across the country. This information will be drawn from state bureaus, AP's political reporters and editors and information from the BNC daybook operation.
• Cumulative Delegate Report: Cumulative delegate table shows the current breakdown of presidential preferences of delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions.

Results

• Primaries and General Election: Results for all primary, presidential primary, runoff and general elections. Results are transmitted in summary and county table formats.
• Trend Data: XML files showing the national party split (the "trend") for the Presidential, U.S. House and Senate, governorships and state legislatures, based on winners in races where they have been called and leadership in the current vote count in races where no winner is yet apparent.
• Top of Ticket National File: national results of president, governor, US Senate, and US House races.
• Cumulative Delegate Report: Cumulative delegate table shows the current breakdown and trends of presidential preferences of delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions.