Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign has asked various divisions to be mindful of their spending, in a reminder that despite his giant “super PAC” bankroll, campaign dollars are ultimately more valuable.Source: Jeb Bush’s Campaign Takes Steps to Rein In Spending...
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign has received commitments from four Democratic state parties, including in the crucial proving ground of New Hampshire, to enter joint fund-raising agreements with the campaign just as the nomination battle is beginning.Source: 4 State Parties Sign Fund-Raising Pacts With Clinton Campaign...
As some at the Federal Election Commission seek to broaden the power of the agency, critics are arguing that it's beginning to look increasingly like the Internal Revenue Service under Lois Lerner, who has been accused of using her office for partisan purposes.Source: Is this woman the new Lois Lerner?...
Legal Talk Network producer Laurence Colletti interviews Benjamin Griffith, Robert Heath, Nancy Abudu, Tanya Clay House, and Nicole Austin-Hillery about election law at the 2015 American Bar Association Annual Meeting.Source: Election Law: Redistricting, Gerrymandering, and Civil Rights...
Donald Trump's business ventures have made him billions, but his latest money-making idea is a non-starter. In interviews this week, the bombastic presidential candidate is touting his ratings-grabbing popularity and suggesting he should be paid to show up for interviews.Source: Donald Trump's latest business idea: Get paid for interviews?...
Third, unlike in 2012, when Mitt Romney was the clear frontrunner and the only serious establishment presidential candidate, and all the pretenders were focused on destroying each other to emerge as his sole rival, this time there are multiple establishment candidates with no frontrunner, including Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, and Chris Christie. And each has independent...
More stories about Security, National security, Federal Election Commission, Public safety, Computer security, Data security, Prevention, Crime prevention, Information secSource: Federal Election Commission refuses to release computer security study...
[Commentary] Media outlets across the country project vast sums of advertising money changing hands during the 2016 election cycle. The Cook Political Report expects $3.3 billion of political advertising to be spent on local broadcast TV for the elections.Source: Local Media Must Push Back At Facebook For 2016 Election...
Congressional campaigns wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on broadcast ads last cycle that did not reach voters in their district, according to Google and the digital firm Targeted Victory.Source: Google, digital firm warn against waste of political broadcast ads...
[Commentary] America’s next president could be eased into office not just by TV ads or speeches, but by Google’s secret decisions, and no one -- except for me and perhaps a few other obscure researchers -- would know how this was accomplished.Source: How Google Could Rig the 2016 Election...
