Category Archives: campaigns

“Russia Sees Midterm Elections as Chance to Sow Fresh Discord, Intelligence Chiefs Warn”

February 14, 2018, 7:23 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

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”

February 13, 2018, 6:00 amcampaignsRick Hasen

Brendan Nyhan for NYT’s The UpShot.

Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Speaking Out on Judicial Issues in Ways Some Find Troubling

February 11, 2018, 8:51 pmcampaigns, judicial electionsRick Hasen

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”

February 5, 2018, 12:59 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

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”

February 2, 2018, 7:52 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

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”

February 1, 2018, 7:01 amcampaignsRick Hasen

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”

February 1, 2018, 6:57 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

CPI reports.

Today’s Must Read: “Zombie Campaigns: The campaign is over. The candidate might be dead. But the spending never stops.”

January 31, 2018, 4:15 pmcampaign finance, campaigns, chicanery, federal election commissionRick Hasen

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”

January 31, 2018, 9:39 amcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

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”

January 31, 2018, 7:16 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

CBS News reports.

“Klobuchar Accuses Tech Companies of Stalling ‘Honest Ads’ Bill”

January 31, 2018, 7:13 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

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

CLC Hosting Call-in on Wednesday About Danger of Foreign Interference with the 2018 Elections

January 30, 2018, 12:57 pmcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Details to RSVP.

Not the Onion Dept

January 29, 2018, 7:53 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Names of campaign donors to be flashed during live stream of Trump’s State of the Union speech

“The Coming Storm? Hush Money and the Federal Election Campaign Act”–On Trump at That $130K to Stormy Daniels

January 29, 2018, 1:13 pmcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Important analysis by Thomas Frampton at the Harvard Law Review blog: In August 2016, federal law enforcement and intelligence officials were alerted to an unsettling possibility: then-candidate Trump’s personal indiscretions might leave him susceptible to the threat of Russian blackmail… Continue reading