WASHINGTON -- The Democratic National Committee is benefiting from presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's fundraising prowess even before she wraps up the nomination thanks to loosened campaign finance rules.Source: New Rules Help Hillary Clinton Tap Big Donors For Democrats...
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Wednesday dismissed the idea that restrictive anti-voter fraud requirements could be racist, echoing the position of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — a champion of such measures who has called accusations of racism a personal insult.Source: Ben Carson, GOP presidential candidate, dismisses idea anti-voter fraud measures racist...
A super PAC backing Donald Trump solicited a Trump business acquaintance for a political contribution using contact information obtained from a top aide to the real estate tycoon, according to an e-mail obtained by The Washington Post.Source: New ties emerge between Trump operation and super PAC...
Note: Billionaire Carl Icahn announced today that he is forming a super PAC with $150 million of his own money.Source: Icahn Super PAC: Self-Aggrandizement and Policy-Pushing...
Crime is back up in California. Los Angeles reported a 20.6 percent increase in violent crimes over the first half of 2015 and nearly an 11 percent increase in property crimes.Source: Can California Be Saved?...
With barely 10 minutes warning, a press staffer yelled at shocked journalists and hustled them to the White House Rose Garden just before noon on Wednesday to witness an abrupt moment of history.Source: Inside Biden's decision not to run...
Turns out timeless clichés and the Beatles understood the 2016 election season before the rest of us did. All that dangerous, dastardly outside money that people have been worrying about since the Citizens United decision? Stunningly irrelevant.Source: What Campaign Donations Can't Buy...
A major player in the explosion of online native ads, BuzzFeed is perhaps the most prominent outlet yet to promise sponsored content for political candidates.Source: Do BuzzFeed’s native political ads cross a line?...
“Colbert Super PAC” exposed the troubling realities of money in politics more effectively than any PSA. But the crippling flaws in our campaign finance system that it was created to highlight have not abated in the years since—in fact, they’ve worsened substantially.Source: How to Finish What Stephen Colbert Started...
LAS VEGAS — Marco Rubio had just finished wooing a group of Christian businessmen at the posh Canyon Gate Country Club, a few miles east of the Strip. The hot afternoon sun was shining on the Italianate columns of the clubhouse. Golf carts glided silently over flawless green fairways.Source: Could Rubio’s crossover message save the GOP?...
