Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling ushered in a new era of big money in politics, congressional party finances have dramatically shifted.Source: The Rise of Shadow Parties...
Get a driver’s license. Register to vote. That’s how California’s new ‘Motor Voter’ law is supposed to work. And, for most, the law that automatically registers voters has worked just fine.Source: Election: Voter registration at DMV churns up big numbers, big questions...
The Georgia Secretary of State is defending at least five voting rights lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Atlanta: 1. Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda v Kemp, 1:18cv-4727, has a hearing on October 29.Source: Georgia is Facing At Least Five Federal Voting Rights Lawsuits, Some of them Time-Urgent...
Spending Split Evenly by Party Sixty-Two House Races Exceed $1 million Details Available on CFI’s General Election IE Tool Independent expenditures (IEs) reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for general election House and Senate contests have continued on a record pace, totaSource: INDEPENDENT SPENDING CONTINUES RECORD PACE; PARTY GROUPS LEAD THE WAY...
If you had to conjure a stock Republican congressman in coastal Orange County, he might be Harley Rouda — tall and tanned, a wealthy real estate investor with a square jaw, blue eyes and the tough-talking manner of a man who runs his own multimillion-dollar company.Source: Will Orange County turn blue on election day? It's the mission of two former...
The contest for control of the House remains close and hard fought, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll of the most-contested districts in the country, with Democrats holding a statistically insignificant lead over Republicans.Source: Battleground House districts remain close in new poll...
The data suggests enthusiasm among early GOP voters that could put a dent in Democratic hopes for a "blue wave" in the midterms. Is the "blue wave" turning purple?Source: Republicans outpacing Democrats in early voting in key states, NBC News finds...
First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.Source: Turnout will be enormous in the election. And that creates lots of unpredictability....
More than 4.3 million Americans have already cast their ballots in the midterm elections, and early signs point to a huge increase in turnout from the last midterm elections in 2014, when overall voter participation hit a 70-year low.Source: Early voting hints at huge turnout...
The super PACs wrestling for the House and Senate majorities this fall are dramatically outpacing their fundraising in other recent cycles, new Federal Election Commission disclosures show, as big-money political spending continues to fuel heated battles for the House and Senate.Source: Super PACs see bipartisan fundraising boom ahead of midterms...
