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The Brennan Center's Jonathan Backer gets upset with Ezra Klein's recent post in which he concluded that money in the 2012 elections turned out to be rather less of a threat to democracy than many had feared in the post-Citizens...
Can small money overwhelm big money? Faced with a hostile Supreme Court and a gridlocked Congress offering little chance of passing legislation, today’s campaign-finance reformers sure hope so. The notion is alluring. Online fundraising has made it easy to collect...
Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen write: Only hours after polls closed on Election Day, a revisionist wave began building that downplayed the role of big money. Analysts asked if the costly Republican failure to retake the White House...
If you open this week’s Economist, you will find what is becoming a familiar line about spending on US elections: The election cycle that has just limped to its exhausted conclusion cost around $6 billion—a new record, as in every...
This Politico article caught my eye last week. Its title is, "Playing to donors, GOP Groups Spill some Secrets" but, from a MoF perspective, this undersells the article. It is a great look at how, ten years after BCRA, the...