This week the Federal Election Commission will vote on a proposal to revive political parties and make them more effective at mobilizing populist political participation.Source: A time to revive the party...
You will be unsurprised to learn that the second Democratic debate, with its prime 9-p.m.-on-Saturday time slot, attracted fewer viewers than any other primary debate this cycle.Source: The Democratic debate was the least-watched this year — but beat every primary debate in 2012...
Though Hillary Clinton was in control throughout the first hour of Saturday night’s Democratic debate, she took some difficult questions about her campaign funding in the second hour. Surprisingly, the hardest hit came not from her fellow candidates, but from Twitter.Source: We Just Witnessed the First Good Use of Social Media in Debate History...
So far no presidential candidate is making much of a fuss about frontrunner Donald Trump's hosting gig on Saturday Night Live last weekend.Source: Ben Carson and Ted Cruz won't ask NBC for 'equal time' after Trump's Saturday Night Live ratings triumph...
Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio mostly traded barbs last Tuesday night during the GOP Debate, but they created a moment of levity when the two issued the same call to action back to back.Source: Donald Trump may be a self-starter, but he’s not self-funded...
As I watched the coverage of the coordinated terror attacks against Paris on Friday night, I thought back to what I — and the political world — was focused on just 24 hours earlier. This was it.Source: The Paris attack and the remarkable smallness of our politics...
There is a growing panic behind the scenes throughout the upper echelons of the Republican Party.Source: Is a Draft Romney movement — with running-mate Rubio — coming soon?...
If you work for the federal government, your Twitter or Facebook profile can show a photo of you hugging Ben Carson or Hillary Clinton. But you can’t share, tweet, ”like,” friend, follow, comment on or retweet anything your candidate says or does when you’re on the clock.Source: “No tweeting what you actually think about Clinton or Carson if you’re on the clock: new limits...
Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.Source: Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win....
A deadlock by the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Public Citizen’s request that the agency close a loophole of its own making that allows federal contractors to make campaign contributions through subsidiaries means the loophole remains. The 3-3 vote came Tuesday evening.Source: “FEC Refuses to Close the ‘Chevron’ Loophole in the Ban Against Campaign Contributions From Government Contractors”...
