Matthew Petersen might have made the best financial decision of his life when he was fifteen. For $1, he bought the Star ’85 Chicago Bulls basketball card team set—a bundle that included a Michael Jordan rookie card. In 2016, that piece of cardboard is selling on eBay for more than $4,000.Source: New FEC Chair Aims for Efficiency Not Upheaval...
Ted Cruz, tagged as “Canadian” by a needling Donald Trump since the GOP race tightened in January, rejects any idea of being ineligible to be U.S. president.Source: Ted Cruz, facing suits on Canadian birth, lawyers up...
Donald Trump’s speaking slot at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday is prompting an acrimonious backlash from the conservative critics desperately trying to mount a last-ditch campaign to block the GOP presidential front-runner from winning the party’s nomination.Source: Trump speech roils CPAC...
In a letter sent today, reform groups urged Senators to cosponsor the Federal Election Administration Act being introduced today by Senator Tom Udall (D-NM).Source: “Reform Groups Urge Senators to Support Federal Election Administration Act to Replace the FEC”...
Over 18,000 voters cast ballots in the 17 counties that offered Early In-Person voting on Monday, February 29, 2016 in Florida ahead of the 2016 PPP.Source: Early In-Person Voting Alive & Well in Florida...
As of today, it looks more likely than not that the Republican Party will nominate Donald Trump as its presidential standard bearer.Source: What's Going On With the Republican Race...
After the polls closed in New Hampshire on Feb. 9, the Republican primary had a clear winner: Donald J. Trump. It took nearly two weeks for the state to award its 23 delegates, and in the end it gave Mr. Trump 11, John Kasich four, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush three each and Marco Rubio two.Source: How New Hampshire Used...
The financing of candidates’ campaigns has become a central theme of the primaries, although — aside from Trump’s truth-adjacent claims that he is self-financing his bid — Republicans mention the topic significantly less often than do Democrats.Source: Presidential hopefuls stretch the truth talking about campaign finance...
The Republican frontrunner is anything but unstoppable—assuming one of the other candidates decides to finally knock him out. I’ve worked in a lot of campaigns and been fortunate enough to be on the winning side far more than losing.Source: We Can Still Beat Donald Trump—and Here’s How...
In America, racial and gender progress often can be a challenge to measure. This is why we so effusively celebrate "firsts." When someone becomes the first of a given ethnicity or gender to occupy a job we've all heard of, it's shorthand for, "Look, we're breaking down barriers!"Source: What if Rubio and Cruz were Democrats?...
