“Gary Cohn, Pulitzer Winner, Says California’s Top-Two System Has Altered the Balance of Power Between Labor and Business”
BAN explains and links.
Category Archives: political parties
“Chilling Election Message to Tea Party Is Business Goal”
Bloomberg on the Chamber’s campaign strategy.
“Quixotic ’80 Campaign Gave Birth to Kochs’ Powerful Network”
Sunday NYT A1 deep dive by Nick Confessore
“The Polarized Court”
Must-read Adam Liptak on the confluence of the ideological and partisan divide on the modern Supreme Court.
At the end of my piece on congressional overrides of the Supreme Court’s statutory cases, I reflect on how perceived partisanship of the… Continue reading
As Predicted, Congressional Override of SCOTUS on Child Pornography Proceeds Full Speed Ahead
Back in April I explained why conditions were right, despite great political polarization, for Congress to override the Supreme Court’s statutory decision in Paroline v. US on the right of child pornography victims to obtain restitution.
And very quickly now… Continue reading
“Defining Parties Down”
“Split Definitive: How Party Polarization Turned the Supreme Court into a Partisan Court”
Neal Devins and Larry Baum have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Starting in 2010 the Supreme Court has divided into two partisan ideological blocs, with all the Court’s Democratic appointees on the liberal side and its… Continue reading
“Viewpoints: Top-two primary system is eliminating diverse political expression”
Michael Feinstein SacBee oped.
“CFI’s Launches New Project on Money and Polarization in the 2014 Congressional Primaries”
Press release: “Today, as the congressional primary season heats up, the Campaign Finance Institute is announcing the public launch of its Project on Money and Polarization in the 2014 Primaries. This first step includes a new web tool through… Continue reading
“Republican Civil War Peaks as Primaries Test Tea Party”
“Liberal donors eye new long-term investments in states and new voters to boost Democrats”
WaPo:
A group of wealthy liberal donors who helped bankroll the Center for American Progress and other major advocacy groups on the left is developing a new big-money strategy that could boost state-level Democratic candidates and mobilize core party… Continue reading
Must-Read Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Analysis of Political Polarization in Milwaukee and Wisconsin
“Reps. Mike Honda, Tom McClintock find reelection no longer a lock; California’s relatively new ‘top two’ primary system means the incumbents face challengers who may have stayed away before”
“Moderate Candidates’ Campaigns are Expensive–Very Expensive”
Anne Kim writes for the Washington Monthly.