PREVIEWING 2014: CFI Releases Analysis of Money in State Elections
Via The Campaign Finance Institute
Much of the politically attuned public’s attention during the 2014 election season has focused on the battle for majority control of the U.S. Senate. But there are also important elections this year in the states. Thirty-six states will be voting for Governor on November 4, with eleven of these races considered Toss Ups by the Cook Political Report. On the same day 6,049 of the nation’s 7,383 state legislative seats will be on the ballot, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Governing Magazine sees 18 of the country’s 98 partisan legislative chambers as being vulnerable to a change in majority control.
With this degree of competition, it is worth asking where the money will come from. Some clues can be found in the elections just past. Today the Campaign Finance Institute is releasing its analysis of the sources of campaign funding in the 2012 elections for state office, based on data supplied by the National Institute on Money in State Politics (NIMSP). This continues a series that CFI began with the elections of 2006.
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