Last week Ian Vandewalker and Daniel Weiner of the Brennan Center for Justice published a paper “Stronger Parties, Stronger Democracy: Rethinking Reform.Source: Brennan Center Publishes Campaign Finance Paper Largely Grounded in Reality...
Opportunity and Freedom PAC, and its two siblings, Opportunity and Freedom PAC numbers 1 and 2, were meant to be heavyweight sluggers for Republican Rick Perry, providing big-budget support for his second presidential bid. But Perry himself turned out to be a welterweight at best.Source: What Happens To All That SuperPAC Money When A Candidate Drops Out...
The 2016 presidential nomination campaigns have been lively, especially on the Republican side. Unconventional candidates, including Donald Trump, Ben Carson and now Carly Fiorina, have made a big splash in the polls.Source: If you think super PACs have changed everything about the presidential primary, think again...
As campaign finance takes center stage for the 2016 elections, the Center for Political Accountability has launched a new website to serve as the “go-to” place to track corporate political spending.Source: IMPORTANT UPDATE : CPA Launches New "Go To" Website...
But correctly interpreting rules changes matters more. Adam Nagourney and Jonathan Martin at the New York Times are the latest to venture down the path of tea leaf reading about the changes the Republican National Committee has made to its 2016 delegate selection rules and their impact.Source: Rules Matter...
In 1981, a research team at little-known Cleveland State University made national headlines when it released a study showing that, despite substantial gains over the preceding decade in the number of women in the workforce and noteworthy shifts in public opinion regarding women's capacity to suSource: How to debate like a woman...
LOS ANGELES — When gloomy Republican Party leaders regrouped after President Obama’s 2012 re-election, they were intent on enhancing the party’s chances of winning back the White House.Source: Party Rules to Streamline Race May Backfire for G.O.P....
As 2016 election talk and coverage reaches wall-to-wall levels, a new app aims to sift through the verbal political diarrhea on TV and social media to facilitate smart debate.Source: Political Players Rushing to New 'Sidewire' App to Filter Out Mind-Numbing Chatter...
All but a handful of presidential campaign websites received failing privacy grades because of the common practice of sharing voter data with like-minded organizations, according to a review by a security and privacy group.Source: Most 2016 campaign websites receive failing privacy grades...
Some Assembly Republicans are looking to Washington, D.C., for inspiration to overhaul Wisconsin's elections and ethics agency, the Government Accountability Board. But critics say the model those lawmakers cite, the Federal Election Commission, is not one of effective campaign oversight.Source: Some recoil at using FEC as model for elections overhaul in Wisconsin...
