Ted Cruz. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)Most presidential candidates have one, perhaps two super PACs championing their cause. It appears Ted Cruz has six. Three of those are exclusively funded by one donor or a family of donors.Source: The perplexing case of the Ted Cruz super PACs...
It is becoming clear that the road to the White House in 2016 leads straight through Silicon Valley.Source: Which Presidential Candidate Is Winning the Tech Money Race?...
Our political discourse is shrinking to fit our smartphone screens. If traditional print and broadcast media required candidates to be nouns—stable, coherent figures—social media pushes them to be verbs, engines of activity.Source: How Social Media Is Ruining Politics...
Larry Lessig is not the first single-issue candidate in American presidential history, but from Tom Mann’s perspective, he picked the wrong issue. Mann says that to isolate money-in-politics, to treat it as the key to solving all other problems, is to “dumb down” politics.Source: The Lessig-Mann Dust-Up -...
But the recent complaints could signal a shift from how the parties have approached complaints in the past. The source believes the creation of the American Democracy Legal Fund is a sign that filing FEC complaints could become an establishment-endorsed tactic in campaigns.Source: “Parties Play Politics With FEC Complaints”...
[Commentary] Selfies, that ubiquitous phenomenon of the current decade, have provoked countless discussions on generational shifts, humans’ narcissistic tendencies and the ability of technology to transform every interaction in our lives. Now they’ve provoked a constitutional question.Source: Voter selfies are great, but a secret ballot is greater...
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published by the Institute of Governmental Studies. Thomas Mann is also Resident Scholar at IGS.Source: Election 2016: Dumbing down American politics, Lawrence Lessig, and the Presidency...
Trump has pledged to self-finance, and so far he has loaned $1.8 million of his own money to his campaign. He's received just $100,000 in contributions from other donors.Source: The Trump question: How do self-financed candidates fair in elections?...
As you may have heard, Harvard law professor and activist Lawrence Lessig is, maybe, running for president, identifying as a "referendum candidate" on the issue of political reform.Source: Larry Lessig's presidential campaign has already changed the campaign reform debate...
It probably pleases Bernie Sanders each morning to wake up and realize the trajectory of his campaign shows that Chief Justice John Roberts and Antonin Scalia didn’t ruin the country in quite the way that progressive groups had feared in 2010.Source: Three Cheers for Citizens United!...
