23
Feb
Neutral Principles and Some Campaign Finance Problems
This Article has both positive and normative objectives.Source: Neutral Principles and Some Campaign Finance Problems...
23
Feb
The Key Lesson from Jeb Bush’s Failed Campaign: You Still Can’t Buy Elections
With Jeb Bush‘s dismal finish in South Carolina comes his long overdue exit from the 2016 Republican primary contest for the presidency.Source: The Key Lesson from Jeb Bush’s Failed Campaign: You Still Can’t Buy Elections...
23
Feb
CA120: When open primary voters tune out
Elections are about choices. For many California voters, these choices are put in stark partisan terms: casting ballots strictly for all Democrats or all Republicans. But the state’s new open primary gave us a new twist.Source: CA120: When open primary voters tune out...
16
Feb
Counterpoint: How a Supreme Court vacancy could weaken both Cruz and Trump
On Sunday, the day after Antonin Scalia's death threw the political world another curveball, Fix Boss Chris Cillizza wrote that the Supreme Court vacancy would be a good thing for one man: Ted Cruz.Source: Counterpoint: How a Supreme Court vacancy could weaken both Cruz and Trump...
16
Feb
2016: The ‘race to the bottom’ election
Conventional wisdom dictates that the presidential race is typically won by the candidate best able to appeal to the collective better angels of the American public, the person who can make us believe that hope and change, for example, is actually possible.Source: 2016: The ‘race to the bottom’ election...
12
Feb
The rise of Donald Trump is a terrifying moment in American politics
On Monday, Donald Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he merrily repeated a woman in the crowd who called Ted Cruz a pussy. Twenty-four hours later, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide.Source: The rise of Donald Trump is a terrifying moment in American politics...
12
Feb
Reid: Contested Democratic convention ‘would be kind of fun’
For months, the specter of a contested Republican convention has lingered over the crowded race for the nomination.Source: Reid: Contested Democratic convention 'would be kind of fun'...
11
Feb
A brokered convention? A third-party candidate? Welcome to the media’s nirvana.
Don’t be fooled by what might sound, at times, like complaining about a “crazy,” “scary,” “topsy-turvy” presidential campaign taking place in a “parallel universe.” Journalists are in media nirvana.Source: A brokered convention? A third-party candidate? Welcome to the media’s nirvana....
11
Feb
Warning: The dirty tricks are about to start
In the run-up to their big presidential campaign moments, the big media players in Iowa and New Hampshire gave voters a useful online feature, an interactive calendar that let them track where candidates were appearing in person. Down in South Carolina, it’s different.Source: Warning: The dirty tricks are about to start...
11
Feb
Amid federal gridlock, lobbying rises in the states
About every two weeks last summer, former Navajo National Councilman Daniel Tso took his white Nissan truck on a tour of oil wells and fracking sites in northwest New Mexico. What he saw there concerned him.Source: Amid federal gridlock, lobbying rises in the states...