“Jeb Bush, Taking His Time, Tests the Legal Definition of Candidate”
NYT on the Bush charade.
And as I explained in Jeb the Destroyer, this will have negative consequences for how candidates “run” in the future.
Category Archives: campaigns
“Why U.S. billionaires may not be able to buy the 2016 election”
Emily Flitter for Reuters.
“Poll Shows Americans Favor Overhaul of Campaign Financing”
NYT:
Americans of both parties fundamentally reject the regime of untrammeled money in elections made possible by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and other court decisions and now favor a sweeping overhaul of how political campaigns are financed,… Continue reading
“Some GOP donors willing to give to many, just not Paul”
Julie Bykowicz, now on the money and politics beat at AP, writes this report.
“Jeb Bush, the Undecider-in-Chief”
Josh Voorhies for Slate. My earlier Slate piece: Jeb the Destroyer.
“Jeb Bush: ‘I would never’ violate campaign laws”
WaPo:
“I would never do that,” he told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “And I’m nearing the end of this journey of traveling and listening to people, garnering, trying to get a sense of whether my candidacy would be viable… Continue reading
“Hillary Clinton campaign scores Ready for Hillary email list”
“Move to delay Ohio’s 2016 primary could aid Kasich”
“Jeb Bush’s History of Outsourcing His Campaign So He Can Raise Big Money”
S.V. Date reports for National Journal.
“Polluted Political Games”
Nick Kristof:
“There is a systemic corruption here,” says Sheila Krumholz of the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign money. “It’s kind of baked in.”
Most politicians are good people. Then they discover that money is the… Continue reading
“Elections and campaigns are not the same thing”
George Will:
A simple apology would suffice. Instead, campaign finance reformers, horrified by the predictable results of their handiwork, aspire to yet more regulatory wrinkles to limit political speech. These, too, would have consequences unintended and undesired by reformers,… Continue reading
“Polling’s Secrecy Problem”
Nate Cohn:
The debunking of a recent academic paper on changing views about same-sex marriage has raised concerns about whether other political science research is being properly vetted and verified. But the scandal may actually point to vulnerabilities in… Continue reading
“Enough: Anti-corruption/pro-equality Dems must draw the line with Clinton (aka, Clinton has a Johnson problem)”
Lessig:
I’ve got a piece in The Atlantic today that’s been a bit prettified by the headline (”Could Hillary Clinton Be the Champion Campaign-Finance Reform Needs?”). That makes the essay sound more optimistic (about Clinton) than it… Continue reading
Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream an In-Kind Contribution to Sanders Campaign
Here.