Category Archives: campaigns
“Twitter Becomes Real Time Tool for Campaigns”
WaPo reports.
Florida Justices Declare Recess in Case to File Financial Disclosure Forms Before Deadline (Otherwise Governor Could Have Replaced Them)
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”
New Book by Mann and Ornstein
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.”
Interesting Ezra Klein column and related forecasting tool.
“National Survey: Super PACs, Corruption, and Democracy”
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
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
“An Inside Look at the DCCC Research Department”
Roll Call reports.
“World French Twitter Users Outsmart Election Law With Cheese, Flan References”
Time: “Dutch cheese, Hungarian wine, rotten tomato and flan were just a few buzzwords thrown around in the French Twitter community on Sunday, when users wittily tweeted in code to skirt a French law prohibiting voting predictions in the… Continue reading
Must-Read NYT Profile on ALEC
Here:
Most of the attention has focused on ALEC’s role in creating model bills, drafted by lobbyists and lawmakers, that broadly advance a pro-business, socially conservative agenda. But a review of internal ALEC documents shows that this is only… Continue reading
“‘Presidential’ vs. ‘Political’ Trips: A Blurry Line, and Tricky Math”
NYT: “Officials at the White House, the Chicago campaign headquarters and the Democratic National Committee declined to say how they decide which events are political and how much to reimburse the government. That secrecy has a tradition dating at… Continue reading
“The Questionable Prosecution of John Edwards”
National Review editorializes.
“This is the town that Jack built, earmark by earmark, into an oasis of economic development projects for 36 years”
Great lede in this Roll Call report on the PA-12 congressional race.