Category Archives: campaigns

How Big Money Sways Policy Even When It Isn’t Spent

October 11, 2016, 8:42 amcampaign finance, campaigns, lobbyingRick Hasen

I made this point in Plutocrats United, and here it is in relation to opposition to the American-US Air airline merger, via ProPublica: While labor was the friendly face of the merger, Tom Horne, the former Arizona attorney general,… Continue reading

“Wikileaks Emails Purport to Reveal Ties Between Clinton Campaign, Super PAC”

October 11, 2016, 7:42 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

WSJ: WikiLeaks’ latest release of what the website says are emails taken from the Clinton campaign reveals the close ties between campaign and its allied super PAC, illustrating a growing trend this election cycle. The emails—whose authenticity the Clinton campaign… Continue reading

“Super PAC Megadonors Are Giving More Than Ever In 2016”

October 11, 2016, 7:28 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Paul Blumenthal for HuffPo: Overall, super PACs have raised approximately $955 million this year, according to FEC reports, far more than they did at this point in the 2012 campaign. What’s more, the biggest contributors are responsible for a… Continue reading

“Dem ‘Dark Money’ org @ProgressNowCO boasts it took out GOP gov candidate ‘without any fingerprints'”

October 10, 2016, 3:46 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Great find by Ken Vogel showing how those on the left are taking full advantage of the deregulating campaign finance system created by Republicans.

“WikiLeaks hack reveals cozy relationship between Clinton campaign, super PAC”

October 10, 2016, 1:57 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Jonathan Swan for The Hill.

“Is there any practical way for Republicans to replace Trump at this point? Not really”

October 10, 2016, 7:45 amcampaignsRick Hasen

Melanie Mason for the LAT.

“New state laws discourage registering immigrants. How will that affect the Latino vote?”

October 10, 2016, 7:35 amcampaigns, voter registrationRick Hasen

Heath Brown for The Monkey Cage: On Oct. 3, Latino Decisions released results of a poll of Latino voters, with fairly predictable results. Most respondents – 67 percent – rate Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton favorably, while 77 percent hold a… Continue reading

“Juanita Broaddrick’s other debate-night claim could be trouble for Breitbart News”

October 10, 2016, 7:32 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

The Fix: Seated next to Donald Trump at a pre-debate campaign event Sunday night, Juanita Broaddrick repeatedher charge that Bill Clinton raped her in 1978 — an accusation she has contradicted under oath and which the former president denies.… Continue reading

“Trump’s Promise to Jail Clinton Is a Threat to American Democracy”

October 10, 2016, 6:58 amcampaignsRick Hasen

Yoni Appelbaum in The Atlantic: You know,” Clinton later responded, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.” Trump couldn’t resist. “Because you would be in… Continue reading

Go Into the Weeds with Ned Foley on the Electoral College Hail Mary

October 9, 2016, 4:34 pmcampaigns, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Here at Politico. (My post on the options open to Trump and the Hail Mary is now at Slate).

A Republican Electoral College Hail Mary, and the Current State of the Campaign

October 8, 2016, 8:41 amcampaigns, Supreme Court, UncategorizedRick Hasen

By all accounts, Donald Trump’s Republican presidential campaign is imploding, with the latest revelations from a leaked 2005 “Access Hollywood” taping revealing not only Trump’s disrespect for women but a bragging about what amounts to a sexual assault. (Why… Continue reading

Research on Filling Vacancies on Presidential Ballot

October 8, 2016, 8:03 amcampaignsnpersily

Last July, my great research assistant, Zach Krowitz, helped put together this memo on the filling of vacancies on the presidential ballot.

“GOP repudiation of Trump before 11/8? If so, then what?”

October 7, 2016, 9:35 pmcampaigns, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Ned Foley: As I write this on Friday night October 7, there is renewed talk of GOP leadership disavowing Trump. True, Trump will still be on the ballot that we citizens cast. But suppose the GOP leadership publicly announces that… Continue reading

Clinton in Private Speech Complains About Citizens United and the Supreme Court’s Money in Politics Cases

October 7, 2016, 3:41 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Wikileaks released some private speeches of Clinton’s that she’d been refusing to release. And this, not really different from her public position, was in the tidbits: