When the public doesn’t know what super PACs have been doing this election cycle, it’s hard to push for change.
Campaign Spending
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How Do We Make Elections More Competitive?
More money and more gerrymandering
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How Much Will Money Matter?
Mitt Romney has a large fundraising advantage, but how much will it actually mean for the election?
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Out of Touch Meets Really out of Touch
Mitt Romney’s donors make Mitt Romney look good.
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Republican
Today’s Ringside Seat:Â The GOP fundraising offensive continues with alarming speed.
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Big Sky’s the Limit
Like many congressional races around the country, Montana’s Senate contest is being defined by previously unthinkable levels of outside spending.
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Don’t Blame “Corporate Personhood”
Citizens United decimated what remained of campaign-finance reform, but the damage has been long in the making.
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Clean Elections, How To
Public frustration with political influence peddling hasn’t been this high since Watergate, and thanks to Maine we finally have an example of how to do reform right.
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Harder Than Soft Money
The explosion of issue advocacy — money spent by individuals and independent groups to support political causes — threatens to make even an outright ban on “soft” money irrelevant. Worse, much of what passes for “issue advocacy” is really covert campaign financing. Still worse, it can’t be regulated.
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Watch What You Wish For
In pursuit of campaign finance reform, many seek to reverse the precedent established by the Supreme Court in 1975, protecting campaign expenditures as free speech. But if the Court’s ruling is overturned, the general protections of the First Amendment might be severely narrowed.
