Third, unlike in 2012, when Mitt Romney was the clear frontrunner and the only serious establishment presidential candidate, and all the pretenders were focused on destroying each other to emerge as his sole rival, this time there are multiple establishment candidates with no frontrunner, including Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, and Chris Christie. And each has independent...
The 2016 election cycle is well underway and political hopefuls on the presidential and congressional level are kicking their fundraising into high gear — and Sunlight's Real-Time Campaign Finance tracker can help you follow the money.Source: Follow the 2016 money with Sunlight's Real-Time Campaign Finance tracker...
A new political action committee dedicated to campaign finance reform wants to be a big player in 2016, and it’s planning to funnel tens of millions of dollars to Democratic candidates running in competitive House and Senate races across the country.Source: End Citizens United PAC wants to make its name a reality...
[Commentary] America’s next president could be eased into office not just by TV ads or speeches, but by Google’s secret decisions, and no one -- except for me and perhaps a few other obscure researchers -- would know how this was accomplished.Source: How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election...
Congressional campaigns wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on broadcast ads last cycle that did not reach voters in their district, according to Google and the digital firm Targeted Victory.Source: Google, digital firm warn against waste of political broadcast ads...
[Commentary] Media outlets across the country project vast sums of advertising money changing hands during the 2016 election cycle. The Cook Political Report expects $3.3 billion of political advertising to be spent on local broadcast TV for the elections.Source: Local Media Must Push Back At Facebook For 2016 Election...
More stories about Security, National security, Federal Election Commission, Public safety, Computer security, Data security, Prevention, Crime prevention, Information secSource: Federal Election Commission refuses to release computer security study...
Republican voters have welcomed Donald Trump with open arms. More than twice as many back him in polls as any other candidate. In charts, support for Trump looks like a moonshot. Trump would seem to have little incentive to take his presidential run independent.Source: Could Donald Trump really run as an independent?...
You can read the brief here. The brief shows the complex interaction of the one person, one vote rule and the requirements to redistrict under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when there is a large non-citizen population.Source: Very Interesting Amicus Brief in Evenwel Case from City of Yakima, WA...
Did the congressional drafters of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law build within it the seeds for its own destruction?Source: “The McCain-Feingold Act May Doom Itself”...
