Project Vote Smart
Nonpartisan site with objective information about the candidates. Includes biographies, position papers, and fund raising information.
--tracks all the news published using ~ 5,000 English-language sources and "gathers social data for each story – how many shares, likes, tweets and comments it has – at repeated intervals, building a live picture of how popular it is, right now. With this information, it calculates a social speed at which each story is travelling. The process is unique, new, and patent pending." The NewsWhip Score shows how fast a story is spreading through Facebook and Twitter.
BoxFish - TV's information search. Search every word spoken on Television in real time--a new layer of discovery for television. Do a keyword search and try it for current events.
pulse - read your news anywhere, gathers your favorite sites together, transforming them into a colorful visually based mosaic. Apps available for iphone, ipad, android, and kindle.
RawStory- a progressive news site focusing on stories often ignored by mainstream media. Draws attention to policy, politics, legal and human rights stories.
NewsPin - pick the topics you care about and this tool finds the best articles and brings them to you so you can share them.
Storyful - curation of the "smartest" conversations about world events by professional journalists who glean the most important news and separate it from the "noise of the real-time web". This is a subscription service with a free trial.
Google: Politics and Elections - (Google is trying to curate!)
This source draws from Google news on the Presidential candidates and the issues including: