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”...
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Shortly after Donald Trump's helicopter touched down in Des Moines on Saturday, a reporter asked him a question about his policies. Trump told her to watch Sunday's "Meet the Press," when he would present a "very comprehensive" plan for immigration.Source: Donald Trump’s surprisingly savvy analysis of American politics...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The heavily funded super PAC backing Republican Jeb Bush will spend at least $10 million on television time in the earliest voting presidential primary states, the first salvo in a massive TV ad campaign to support the former Florida governor's bid for the Republican nominSource: Pro-Bush super PAC spending $10M-plus on initial TV campaign...
A week after a pair of indictments rocked Rand Paul’s world, the balance of power is shifting inside the Kentucky senator’s political machine.Source: Indictments shake up Rand Paul’s money operation...
COMMISSION MEETINGS AND HEARINGS On August 11, the Commission held an open meeting and an executive session. On August 13, the Commission held an executive session.Source: Weekly Digests...
