Can A SuperPAC Rescue Rick Perry?
It was hard not to notice Rick Perry's plight last month, when the Republican presidential campaigns filed their financial disclosures. The former Texas governor's total take so far is $1.1 million....
View ArticleIran Lobbying Battle Heats Up On The Airwaves
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View ArticleDonald Trump's Evolution On Campaign Fundraising
When billionaire developer Donald Trump entered the presidential race two months ago, he drew a sharp line between other candidates — needy candidates, always trading favors for money — and...
View ArticleDemocratic Group Fires A Warning Shot With Immigration Attack Ad
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Hillary Clinton Proposes Plan To Restrict Money's Influence In Politics
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View ArticleWhat Happens To All That SuperPAC Money When A Candidate Drops Out
Opportunity and Freedom PAC, and its two siblings, Opportunity and Freedom PAC numbers 1 and 2, were meant to be heavyweight sluggers for Republican Rick Perry, providing big-budget support for his...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Would Be The Big Winner In New Public-Funding Model
What would it take to make the White House wannabes stop chasing after big donors? From 1975 to 1999, the answer was federal matching funds — money that candidates could get by raising more money from...
View ArticleThe 1 Line Pope Francis Left Out Of His Speech
A potentially controversial sentence in the prepared text of Pope Francis' address went unspoken when he delivered the speech to Congress.The line appears to challenge the dominant role of money in...
View ArticleNew Rankings Highlight Corporate Transparency In Politics
There's a fresh look at how transparent major companies are when it comes to their political activity.More than two dozen companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index scored 90 percent or better,...
View ArticleKoch Political Network Expanding 'Grass-Roots' Organizing
The political network led by billionaires David and Charles Koch is building what's meant to be a seamless system of grass-roots groups, designed to advance the network's conservative and libertarian...
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For Presidential Campaigns, Frugality Is All The Rage
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View ArticleAs GOP Debates Climate Change, Corporate Lobbyists Wish For Action
Even as negotiators struggled this week at the Paris summit on climate change, Senate Republicans held a subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill to challenge the underlying science. They called it "Data...
View ArticleHow Hillary Clinton Could Ask A Single Donor For Over $700,000
Earlier this month, Hillary Clinton attended her first event for an organization called the Hillary Victory Fund. About 160 guests attended, and the event grossed more than $5 million.The Hillary...
View ArticleSuperPACs Are Not So Super In 2016
When this presidential campaign got underway last spring, the buzz was that a candidate would be propelled by passing off the heavy costs of TV advertising to a friendly superPAC. But now the opposite...
View ArticleThe Ted Cruz Goldman Sachs Loan, Explained
Ted Cruz charged into national politics in 2012, when he burst from the Tea Party right to take down a Texas establishment Republican in a Senate primary. His underdog campaign benefited from $1.43...
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