[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...
A new political action committee dedicated to campaign finance reform wants to be a big player in 2016, and it’s planning to funnel tens of millions of dollars to Democratic candidates running in competitive House and Senate races across the country.Source: End Citizens United PAC wants to make its name a reality...
The 2016 election cycle is well underway and political hopefuls on the presidential and congressional level are kicking their fundraising into high gear — and Sunlight's Real-Time Campaign Finance tracker can help you follow the money.Source: Follow the 2016 money with Sunlight's Real-Time Campaign Finance tracker...
Republican voters have welcomed Donald Trump with open arms. More than twice as many back him in polls as any other candidate. In charts, support for Trump looks like a moonshot. Trump would seem to have little incentive to take his presidential run independent.Source: Could Donald Trump really run as an independent?...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The heavily funded super PAC backing Republican Jeb Bush will spend at least $10 million on television time in the earliest voting presidential primary states, the first salvo in a massive TV ad campaign to support the former Florida governor's bid for the Republican nominSource: Pro-Bush super PAC spending $10M-plus on initial TV campaign...
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Shortly after Donald Trump's helicopter touched down in Des Moines on Saturday, a reporter asked him a question about his policies. Trump told her to watch Sunday's "Meet the Press," when he would present a "very comprehensive" plan for immigration.Source: Donald Trump’s surprisingly savvy analysis of American politics...
Did the congressional drafters of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law build within it the seeds for its own destruction?Source: “The McCain-Feingold Act May Doom Itself”...
You can read the brief here. The brief shows the complex interaction of the one person, one vote rule and the requirements to redistrict under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act when there is a large non-citizen population.Source: Very Interesting Amicus Brief in Evenwel Case from City of Yakima, WA...
A week after a pair of indictments rocked Rand Paul’s world, the balance of power is shifting inside the Kentucky senator’s political machine.Source: Indictments shake up Rand Paul’s money operation...
Six in 10 Republican insiders in the early states say Donald Trump can’t win Iowa or New Hampshire. That’s the assessment of this week’s POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of the top operatives, strategists and activists in Iowa and New Hampshire.Source: Insiders: Trump can’t win early states...
