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
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
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
15
Nov
Donald Trump may be a self-starter, but he’s not self-funded
Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio mostly traded barbs last Tuesday night during the GOP Debate, but they created a moment of levity when the two issued the same call to action back to back.Source: Donald Trump may be a self-starter, but he’s not self-funded...