The Republican National Committee (RNC) is investing an additional $25 million in their midterms efforts, citing "an influx of contributions" from their supporters. Of that, they're giving $3.5 million each to the party's campaign arms that work on House and Senate races.Source: RNC invests additional $25M to boost GOP before midterms...
Get a driver’s license. Register to vote. That’s how California’s new ‘Motor Voter’ law is supposed to work. And, for most, the law that automatically registers voters has worked just fine.Source: Election: Voter registration at DMV churns up big numbers, big questions...
Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling ushered in a new era of big money in politics, congressional party finances have dramatically shifted.Source: The Rise of Shadow Parties...
It’s been eight years since Citizens United v. FEC, and America still doesn’t have transparency about the sources of money in politics. To wit, over $100 million in dark money has been spent as of October 17, 2018, with key weeks left in the midterms.Source: The 2018 Elections Have $100 million in Dark Money and Counting...
On August 7, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, a Republican, and two-term Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) coasted to easy primary victories in the race for McCaskill’s current Missouri Senate seat.Source: Can an Independent Movement Happen?...
@monkeycageblog has become its namesake, a blog lacking vetting of the claims put forth. Quite sad, really, since it used to showcase peer-reviewed scholarship. Case in point: this post wildly inflates the number of persons affected by GA's exact match https://t.co/3HaiS3vDfISource: About Those 900,000 Voters Potentially Disenfranchised by Ga’s ‘Exact Match’ Law? Not So Much...
If you had to conjure a stock Republican congressman in coastal Orange County, he might be Harley Rouda — tall and tanned, a wealthy real estate investor with a square jaw, blue eyes and the tough-talking manner of a man who runs his own multimillion-dollar company.Source: Will Orange County turn blue on election day? It's the mission of two former...
Spending Split Evenly by Party Sixty-Two House Races Exceed $1 million Details Available on CFI’s General Election IE Tool Independent expenditures (IEs) reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for general election House and Senate contests have continued on a record pace, totaSource: INDEPENDENT SPENDING CONTINUES RECORD PACE; PARTY GROUPS LEAD THE WAY...
The Georgia Secretary of State is defending at least five voting rights lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Atlanta: 1. Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda v Kemp, 1:18cv-4727, has a hearing on October 29.Source: Georgia is Facing At Least Five Federal Voting Rights Lawsuits, Some of them Time-Urgent...
The contest for control of the House remains close and hard fought, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll of the most-contested districts in the country, with Democrats holding a statistically insignificant lead over Republicans.Source: Battleground House districts remain close in new poll...
