Category Archives: campaigns

Obama Campaign Responds to Michael Barone on Credit Card Procedures for Fundraising

May 7, 2012, 12:36 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

In this post, I linked to Michael Barone’s incendiary charges of “thuggery” related to the Obama campaign’s supposed failure of the campaign to use “AVS” (address verification) for credit card donations. Barone’s claim is that this allowed for fraudulent… Continue reading

“Some California legislators bring arrest records to their campaigns”

May 7, 2012, 7:11 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

The LA Times offers this report, with the subhead: “Six candidates for state-level office in California have been arrested within the last two years. But do voters care?”

“4 Years Later, Race is Still Issue for Some Voters”

May 4, 2012, 7:50 amcampaignsRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“Obama’s Chicago Politics: Thuggery Not Civility”

May 3, 2012, 8:50 amcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Michael Barone: “It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card. That doesn’t sound very important. But it’s evidence of… Continue reading

“Congress: It’s going to get worse”

May 1, 2012, 3:13 pmcampaigns, legislation and legislatures, political partiesRick Hasen

Mahtesian and Vandehei: “Think Congress is a big, dysfunctional, polarized mess? Just wait: It’s going to get worse.”

“What a Dearth of Small Donations May Mean for Romney”

April 30, 2012, 3:01 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

538: “The Romney campaign’s continuing dearth of small-dollar contributions suggests that very conservative voters, like those who supported Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, have yet to warm completely to Mr. Romney, which could potentially mean not only less money… Continue reading

Florida Justices Declare Recess in Case to File Financial Disclosure Forms Before Deadline (Otherwise Governor Could Have Replaced Them)

April 26, 2012, 7:48 amcampaigns, judicial electionsRick Hasen

And now there is an investigation into the use of court resources to help file campaign documents. Sounds like some campaign lawyer did not do his or her job.

“Minnesota’s election system after two recounts”

April 25, 2012, 12:26 pmcampaigns, election administration, recountsRick Hasen

Eric Black reports on yesterday’s Bipartisan Policy Center/Humphrey School event.

New Book by Mann and Ornstein

April 25, 2012, 9:53 amcampaigns, legislation and legislaturesRick Hasen

In the mailbag today is a copy of It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism. Here’s the book’s description: Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of… Continue reading

“Ezra Klein: ‘Scandals’ don’t predict election results. But this formula might.”

April 24, 2012, 7:46 amcampaignsRick Hasen

Interesting Ezra Klein column and related forecasting tool.

“National Survey: Super PACs, Corruption, and Democracy”

April 24, 2012, 7:36 amcampaign finance, campaigns, The Voting Wars, voter idRick Hasen

The Brennan Center has this press release. I have not yet had a chance to look at the methodology, but I am skeptical of the point made in a second, emailed press release, that Super PAC spending will actually cause… Continue reading

John Edwards, Tom DeLay, Don Siegelman and the Criminalization of Politics

April 23, 2012, 7:56 ambribery, campaign finance, campaigns, chicanery, John EdwardsRick Hasen

My new Slate jurisprudence column begins: “If politics makes for strange bedfellows, so too it seems do political prosecutions.” Another snippet: It is no wonder then that liberals and conservatives have rallied around these politicians, despite the fact that most… Continue reading