“You might think you’re immune to political advertising. In Montana, I learned the hard way: None of us are.”
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How Elderly Dementia Patients Are Unwittingly Fueling Political Campaigns
“A CNN investigation reveals how deceptive political fundraising has misled elderly Americans into giving away millions of dollars.”
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President Obama is less skilled than Presidents Clinton and Bush when it comes to buttering up campaign donors. Is this a good thing? As the Washington fund-raiser sees it, the White House social secretary must spend the first year of an Administration saying, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.’ Instead, the fund-raiser says, Obama’s first […]
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Chronicling a four-decade fight over campaign finance, and how American politics is fueled by secret spending. For decades, the campaign finance wars have pitted two ideological foes against each other: one side clamoring to dam the flow while the other seeks to open the floodgates. The self-styled good-government types believe that unregulated political money inherently […]
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How the Supreme Court dismantled campaign-finance reform—and how government missteps in the Citizens United case inadvertently aided in its undoing: Alito wanted to push Stewart down a slippery slope. Since McCain-Feingold forbade the broadcast of ‘electronic communications’ shortly before elections, this was a case about movies and television commercials. What else might the law regulate? […]