Politico: Concerns are mounting among top donors and party elites that an influx of huge checks into the GOP primary will hurt the party’s chances of retaking the White House. Long-shot candidates propped up by super PACs and other… Continue reading

Keating comments.

Fredreka Schouten for USA Today: Money from wealthy political patrons is gushing into the 2016 presidential contest, racing past the fundraising of Republican candidates themselves as donors seek new ways to influence who wins the party’s nomination. One example: Allies… Continue reading

Matea Gold for WaPo.

In Part II of his interview with The Intercept: Have you ever heard proposals for vouchers of $100 or $200 that  people could give not just to individual political campaigns, but to any part of the political system? So they… Continue reading

Nice illustration of the current state of play at The Fix.

Brad Smith responds to Paul Waldman: An ongoing problem with “reform” advocacy over the decades has been the lack of interest in results. The advocates of all this regulation tend to measure “good government” by the presence of regulation, rather… Continue reading

NYT‘s Nick Confessore: The full cash position of the campaigns — and the names of who, exactly, is supplying all this money — will not be clear until the end of the month, when each candidate is to have… Continue reading

Paul Blumenthal reports for HuffPo.

Bauer: This is one impression the case leaves – that without dissent, and for this class of contributors, the Court was prepared to affirm unambiguously affirm the government’s regulatory authority.  But then, after a step back, Wagner also illustrates… Continue reading