Legally Political

19 Nov

New Study: Small Donor Matching Program Would Incentivize Shift in 2016 Presidential Fundraising Strategies

WASHINGTON, DC – Candidates in the 2016 presidential race would see a dramatic shift in fundraising success under a proposed small donor public financing system, according to a study released on Thursday by U.S. PIRG Education Fund.Source: New Study: Small Donor Matching Program Would Incentivize Shift in 2016 Presidential Fundraising Strategies...

19:52 / blog / Pocket / Audrey Perry Martin

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19 Nov

Tech moguls shun Clinton super PAC

Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event on November 3, 2015 in Coralville, Iowa. | GettySource: Tech moguls shun Clinton super PAC...

19:52 / blog / Pocket / Audrey Perry Martin

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19 Nov

A Request: Don’t Use the RCP Delegate Interactive Tool as a Mobile Brokered Convention Production Unit

It's great! Sean Trende and David Byler have done yeoman's work in not only putting this thing together, but in putting it out there for public consumption.Source: A Request: Don't Use the RCP Delegate Interactive Tool as a Mobile Brokered Convention Production Unit...

19:52 / blog / Pocket / Audrey Perry Martin

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19 Nov

Opaque payment streams for two top consultants to Fiorina groups

This story was cross-posted at Time.com. For two consultants working to help put Carly Fiorina in the White House, the legal firewall between campaign and super PAC must look more like a mirror.Source: Opaque payment streams for two top consultants to Fiorina groups...

19:52 / blog / Pocket / Audrey Perry Martin

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17 Nov

Lawsuit Says Utah Law Violates the First Amendment

Alexandria, VA – The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), America’s largest nonprofit working to promote and defend First Amendment rights to free political speech, assembly, and petition, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit to declare unconstitutional a recent Utah law requiring nonSource: Lawsuit Says Utah Law Violates the First Amendment...

23:13 / blog / Pocket / Audrey Perry Martin

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17 Nov

GOP Is Looking Good : National Review Online

I left the Republican party a long time ago for a number of reasons, one of which is that I didn’t want to be part of any organization that had Arlen Specter as a member.Source: GOP Is Looking Good : National Review Online...

17:56 / blog / Pocket / Audrey Perry Martin

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17 Nov

The GOP Race for Delegates: An Interactive Tool

As is always the case, national polling is drawing the lion’s share of the attention in discussions about the Republican primary race. As is also always the case, this emphasis is misplaced. This is, after all, a race for delegates.Source: The GOP Race for Delegates: An Interactive Tool...

17:42 / blog / Pocket / Audrey Perry Martin

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16 Nov

A time to revive the party

This week the Federal Election Commission will vote on a proposal to revive political parties and make them more effective at mobilizing populist political participation.Source: A time to revive the party...

19:32 / blog / Pocket / Audrey Perry Martin

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16 Nov

The Democratic debate was the least-watched this year — but beat every primary debate in 2012

You will be unsurprised to learn that the second Democratic debate, with its prime 9-p.m.-on-Saturday time slot, attracted fewer viewers than any other primary debate this cycle.Source: The Democratic debate was the least-watched this year — but beat every primary debate in 2012...

02:01 / blog / Pocket / Audrey Perry Martin

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15 Nov

We Just Witnessed the First Good Use of Social Media in Debate History

Though Hillary Clinton was in control throughout the first hour of Saturday night’s Democratic debate, she took some difficult questions about her campaign funding in the second hour. Surprisingly, the hardest hit came not from her fellow candidates, but from Twitter.Source: We Just Witnessed the First Good Use of Social Media in Debate History...

11:51 / blog / Pocket / Audrey Perry Martin

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