The 2016 presidential nomination campaigns have been lively, especially on the Republican side. Unconventional candidates, including Donald Trump, Ben Carson and now Carly Fiorina, have made a big splash in the polls.Source: If you think super PACs have changed everything about the presidential primary, think again...
Opportunity and Freedom PAC, and its two siblings, Opportunity and Freedom PAC numbers 1 and 2, were meant to be heavyweight sluggers for Republican Rick Perry, providing big-budget support for his second presidential bid. But Perry himself turned out to be a welterweight at best.Source: What Happens To All That SuperPAC Money When A Candidate Drops Out...
Last week Ian Vandewalker and Daniel Weiner of the Brennan Center for Justice published a paper “Stronger Parties, Stronger Democracy: Rethinking Reform.Source: Brennan Center Publishes Campaign Finance Paper Largely Grounded in Reality...
WASHINGTON -- Presidential candidates from both parties are going to solicit six and seven-figure contributions directly from donors for the first time in a decade, thanks to looser campaign finance rules enacted by the Supreme Court and Congress in recent years.Source: The Warnings About The Supreme Court's Dangerous Campaign Finance Ruling Are Now Coming True...
Scott Walker dropped out of the presidential race Monday evening in Madison, Wisconsin. His announcement capped a precipitous fall and exit for the Wisconsin governor, who entered the race as a highly lauded candidate, widely expected to be among the leading contenders in the presidential field.Source: The 2016 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet...
Today – September 22, 2015 – is National Voter Registration Day, and election officials and community groups across the nation will be marking the day with events encouraging Americans to register to vote or update their records.Source: National Voter Registration Day 2015Related articlesNational Voter Registration Day: How to registerStates Innovate to Help Voters RegisterCalifornia Voter Registration Deadline is October 20"Nearly...
Political organizations working to influence the 2016 elections outside the party or official campaign structure had spent more than $25.1 million as of Sept. 21.Source: Five-fold upsurge: Super PACs, dark money groups spending far more than in ’12 cycle at same point in campaign...
On September 25, 2015, the Voting Rights Institute, a joint project of the Campaign Legal Center and American Constitution Society (ACS), and Georgetown University Law Center will conduct a voting rights training session at its new permanent home at Georgetown Law in Washington, DC.Source: Latest Voting Rights Institute to Train New Generation of Voting Rights Lawyers at Georgetown Law...
In July 1976, while appearing with civil-rights icon John Lewis, Jimmy Carter proposed automatically registering to vote every eligible American once they turned 18, which he said would “transform, in a beneficial way, the politics of our country.Source: How Automatic Voter Registration Can Transform American Politics...
New Report Released by National Commission on Voting Rights: More Work Needed to Improve Registration and Voting in the U.S.Source: Improving Elections in the United States: Voices from the Field...
