From Lisa Gilbert: I wanted to flag important polling released Friday by Public Policy Polling which shows that 88% of Republicans and 88% of Democrats want the SEC to issue a rule requiring publicly traded corporations to disclose their political… Continue reading

Extensive CPI report: South Carolina elected officials and candidates have what amounts to a personal ATM that dispensed nearly $100 million since 2009 for such things as car repairs, football tickets, male-enhancement pills, GoPro cameras, overseas junkets and gasoline. A… Continue reading

WaPo: Jeb Bush is entering a critical phase of his Republican presidential campaign, with top donors warning that the former Florida governor needs to demonstrate growth in the polls over the next month or face serious defections among supporters.… Continue reading

NYT reports.

Peter Overby reports for NPR.

Fredreka Schouten for USA Today: The rules on what amounts to coordination, however, are so narrowly defined that super PACs are increasingly acting as shadow campaigns — deploying staff to early voting states, financing feel-good biographical ads to introduce the… Continue reading

Paul Blumenthal for HuffPo: During courtroom debate over the McCutcheon decision, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli expressed concern that political parties could create joint fundraising committees to allow a single candidate to solicit a $1 million-plus contribution, which could be distributed… Continue reading

Release: Candidates in the 2016 presidential race would see a dramatic shift in their fundraising, and have a powerful incentive to focus more on small donors under a proposed small donor public financing system, according to a study released… Continue reading

Peter Overby reports for NPR.

Center for Responsive Politics: While there are no complete ingenues among the rosters of top donors to the super PACs, which filed their disclosure reports for the first half of the year this week, there are a few who… Continue reading