Category Archives: campaign finance
“Money and Politics in Polarized Times”
I have written this post for Yale Books Unbound. A snippet:
Those seeing this campaign money-polarization connection argue that to decrease political polarization, we need to free political parties to raise more money from wealthy donors. Further, public financing plans… Continue reading
Kissing the Ring Dep’t
“Presidential Candidates’ Small & Large Donors: Sanders 64%, Carson 54% from Small Donors; Bush 75%, Clinton 58% from Donors who Maxed Out”
“Do Trump and Sanders show us the limits of money in politics?”
Lee Drutman writes for Vox.
“Donations, big and small, continue to pour into 2016 race”
“Campaign-Finance Reports Suggest Long Battles for U.S. Presidential Elections”
“White House race nearing $1 billion; Big-money super PACs have raised almost half of presidential cash”
“Diluting the Power of Big Money”
Renee Loth column for the Boston Globe.
“The Power of the Super-PAC Wanes as Trump Prepares for Iowa Test”
“Wall Street’s Donor Role Expands as Money Flows Into 2016 Election”
WSJ on the rise of the plutocracy:
Wall Street is emerging as a particularly dominant funding source for Republicans and Democrats in the presidential election, early campaign-finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show. The trend comes even as… Continue reading
“The Jeb Bush Hatchet Man Who Might Accidentally Elect Donald Trump”
Jeb Bush Super PAC fundraising may matter, but not in the way you might think.
“The New Anti-Sanders Super PAC Is Funded By Anti-Clinton Donors”
Some three-dimensional chess from Joe Ricketts:
About a week ago, a super PAC bankrolled by a wealthy conservative donorannounced that it would run an ad attacking Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for being too far along the ideological spectrum.
The… Continue reading