Category Archives: campaigns
In Response to FEC Complaint by Common Cause, Trump’s Lawyer Michael Cohen Says He Paid $130,000 to Porn Star. Is There a Campaign Finance Violation?
Maggie Haberman for the NYT:
Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, said on Tuesday that he had paid $130,000 out of his own pocket to a pornographic-film actress who had once claimed to have had an affair with… Continue reading
“Russia Sees Midterm Elections as Chance to Sow Fresh Discord, Intelligence Chiefs Warn”
NYT:
Russia is already meddling in the midterm elections this year, the top American intelligence officials said on Tuesday, warning that Moscow is using a digital strategy to worsen the country’s political and social divisions.
Russia is using fake accounts… Continue reading
“Fake News and Bots May Be Worrisome, but Their Political Power Is Overblown”
Brendan Nyhan for NYT’s The UpShot.
Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Speaking Out on Judicial Issues in Ways Some Find Troubling
Fascinating Patrick Marley report in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Usually it is conservatives pushing the envelope on judicial campaign speech. But now there’s this:
Tim Burns is doing what state Supreme Court candidates have long avoided — telling voters what he… Continue reading
“Seattle finds Facebook in violation of city campaign finance law”
David Ingram for Reuters:
Seattle’s election authority said on Monday that Facebook Inc is in violation of a city law that requires disclosure of who buys election ads, the first attempt of its kind to regulate U.S. political ads on… Continue reading
“About 25% of Trump’s Re-election Spending Continues to Go to Lawyers”
NYT:
President Trump’s re-election campaign raised $15.2 million in the last three months of last year, and spent $1.2 million on legal fees — with much of the cash going to law firms responding to investigations of Russian meddling in… Continue reading
“The Minimal Persuasive Effects of Campaign Contact in General Elections: Evidence from 49 Field Experiments”
Joshua Kalla and David Broockman have written this article for APSR. Here is the abstract:
Significant theories of democratic accountability hinge on how political campaigns affect Americans’ candidate choices. We argue that the best estimate of the effects of campaign… Continue reading
“Lesson of 2017: Political campaign season truly never ends”
Today’s Must Read: “Zombie Campaigns: The campaign is over. The candidate might be dead. But the spending never stops.”
This is something from the Tampa Bay Times:
IT’S BEEN MORE THAN A DECADE since South Florida Rep. Mark Foley was forced out of Congress for sending sexual text messages to teenage boys.
But Foley tapped his congressional campaign fund… Continue reading
“CLC Report: U.S. Elections Remain Vulnerable to Foreign Influence”
Release:
Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) released a report detailing the vulnerabilities of American elections to foreign interference that were exposed in the 2016 presidential election. The report outlines solutions for addressing this most urgent issue, which would protect… Continue reading
“Rubio, Menendez express concern about Russian influence in Mexican election to Tillerson”
“Klobuchar Accuses Tech Companies of Stalling ‘Honest Ads’ Bill”
Bloomberg BNA:
The primary sponsor of legislation to require more information about who’s paying to get voters’ attention says her online advertising bill probably is going nowhere in this election year.
Gathering enough support to get the bill enacted is… Continue reading