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Last week , Politico Buzzfeed   ran a story claiming that Obama is having fundraising problems, noting that many of his 2008 donors haven...

Over at Mother Jones , Andy Kroll reports  that Priorities USA Action, an Obama-aligned super PAC, is underperforming relative to its Republ...

The Denver Post has an interesting story today about the motives of some of those who are donating to super PACs this year. In particular...

Last September , Nick Confessore wrote in the NYT that the Obama campaign was failing to secure funds from small donors like it did in 2008...

Imagine, for a moment, that you didn't need to raise money to run for office, that the government would pay you to run. Who would that h...

A few commenters at this last post on presidential campaign spending suggested examining spending as a function of annual real GDP . Check ...

On Monday, Dave Gilson produced this wonderful graph of spending by presidential candidates since 1860, in constant 2011 dollars. It sugges...

If parties are networks, where exactly do 527s fit in? Are they out on the fringes, running messages inconsistent with what the party leader...

Mark Schmitt wrote last week about how Super PACs were allowing for zombie presidential candidates who now have the funding to walk the Ear...

A friend posted a Facebook link this morning to a group called Get Money Out , which wants to, quite simply, get all private money out of po...

Over at the New York Times , Nicholas Confessore has a piece up claiming that Obama's small donors, who were such a major part of his s...

In the NY Times , Joe Nocera advocates boycotting donations to political campaigns as a way to get politicians to "begin acting respon...

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John Sides is seeking feedback on his summary of the impact of the Citizens United ruling on the 2010 congressional elections, although it...

There are plenty of grounds on which to criticize RNC chair Michael Steele, but I didn't quite get this criticism from Gentry Collins , ...