BNA has this report (subscription required), reporting on the FEC’s dismissal of enforcement cases involving the McCain, Clinton, and Giuliani campaigns. It also notes: With less than a month left in 2008, the FEC has posted on its website actions… Continue reading

Mary Anastasia O’Grady has this WSJ op-ed on public financing in Canada, drawing a comparison between “how Canada’s Conservatives finance their campaigns and how U.S. President-elect Barack Obama did it.”

See here. The stay application in the case, Donofrio v. Wells, had been referred by Justice Thomas to the full Court. Update: AP has this report and WaPo this one.

Richard Winger offers these thoughts.

You can find it here, complete with the “I’m John McCain and I approve this message” taglline, even though McCain reportedly refused to authorize the ad.

The Columbus Dispatch has this story on Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy’s 2311 vote victory over Republican Steve Stivers in Ohio’s 15th Congressional District. Kilroy was behind by over 500 votes before Franklin County provisional ballots were counted, and won despite… Continue reading

From this evening through Wednesday, a summit on the 2008 election will take place at the Newseum in Washington, DC. The symposium is sponsored by Make Voting Work, a project of the Pew Center on the States in parternship… Continue reading

Today’s Akron Beacon-Journal has this op-ed decrying post-election litigation, focusing on Friday’s ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court that roughly 1000 provisional ballots shouldn’t be counted.

The AP has this profile of the lead lawyers for Franken and Coleman in the still-unresolved Minnesota senatorial race.

Brad Smith thinks not, responding to Christine Pelosi’s selection of John Grisham’s The Appeal as the best political book she’s read this year.

Politico reports here that “the Mason-Dixon Line has emerged as a key fault line in the race for the Republican National Committee chairmanship.”

David Savage has this rundown of the cases challenging Obama’s eligibility to serve as President.

The NYT reports here on Anh Cao’s victory over William Jefferson. The AP bio of Cao available here notes that the Saigon-born Republican will be the first Vietnamese American member of Congress.

Politico reports here and the Hill here on former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell’s quest to become the next RNC chair. You can find Blackwell’s letter to RNC members here. Among the qualifications Blackwell touts are that he… Continue reading