The 2016 election has thrust populist candidates and big-spending outside groups to center stage. These trends further marginalize the traditional role of the national political parties.Source: Going After the Big Bucks...
President Donald Trump wouldn’t be beholden to special interests, he says. Why? Because billionaires aren’t paying for his campaign.Source: Is Donald Trump self-funding his campaign? Sort of...
Alexandria, VA – The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), America’s largest nonprofit working to promote and defend First Amendment rights to free political speech, assembly, and petition, today released an issue brief showing that money spent by candidates and super PACs was negatively coSource: “Big Money” Fails to Buy Iowa and New Hampshire Voters...
ABC put together an estimate of the number of delegates won by each of the Republican candidates for the presidential nomination so far. Donald Trump in the lead with 17. Ted Cruz in second with 11.Source: The hopelessly, intentionally messy 2016 delegate process, explained...
“I do not have a super PAC, and I do not want a super PAC.” –Bernie Sanders, remarks after New Hampshire primary, Feb. 9, 2016 “I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a super PAC, who’s not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street and special interests.Source: Sanders’s claim that he...
In the midst of her concession speech on Tuesday night, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pivoted to a seemingly impromptu aside about Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to spend unlimited sums electioneering. “Sen.Source: Hillary’s Citizens United Criticism Makes It Sound Like She Hates Free Speech...
Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, looks at Bernie Sanders’s desire to banish the Citizens United decision, and the constitutional barriers in the way.Source: Constitution Check: Will a Sanders “political revolution” overthrow Citizens United?...
This post was updated at 4:50 p.m. ET to reflect revised delegate counts Bernie Sanders delivered the second-biggest rout in New Hampshire Democratic primary history last night, besting Hillary Clinton by 22 percentage points.Source: How Hillary Clinton Might Actually Win In N.H., Even Though She Lost Big...
Campaign finance law was already in tatters. But according to expert Richard L. Hasen, it'll soon get even worse While there have been two national elections since the Citizens United ruling upended campaign finance law in the U.S.Source: “More corporate money in our elections”: Believe it or not, big money is about to get even more powerful...
It's hard to imagine the New Hampshire primary going any worse for establishment Republicans.Source: How New Hampshire turned into a nightmare for the Republican establishment...
