Via RIA Novosti WASHINGTON, November 4 (RIA Novosti) – The most expensive midterm election in US history is also marked by less transparency in campaign finance and portends a possible rise in special interest spending in the 2016 elections, experts…
Read MoreVia The Daily Herald Illinois voters will have their say Tuesday on hot-button issues ranging from minimum wage to birth control. Five statewide referendum questions will be on the ballot in Tuesday’s election — the most in at least 44…
Read MoreVia Atlanta Journal Constitution Seen enough political advertising yet? No? Well, don’t worry. If the governor’s race goes into a runoff, you’ll be able to bask in attack ads from now until December. If the Senate race goes into a…
Read MoreVia The Huffington Post If you live in a competitive congressional district (and most of us don’t), you’ve been receiving lots of “free” information lately about the candidates who would like to represent you in the next Congress. Mailers, ads,…
Read MoreVia The Center for Public Integrity At least 29 donors have given $1 million or more to state-level campaigns so far this election, with a dozen of the big givers made up of self-funding candidates, according to an analysis of…
Read MoreVia The Center for Responsive Politics The 2014 midterms may well mark the election cycle in which the small donor got left behind. Revised projections by the Center for Responsive Politics for the total cost of these congressional races suggest…
Read MoreVia The Center for Responsive Politics Overall ad spending has broken $1 billion in federal elections and state governors’ races, with the total number of ads exceeding 2.2 million. According to a new report by the Wesleyan Media Project in…
Read MoreVia The Center for Responsive Politics With just a few days remaining in the first quarter of 2014, Mary Landrieu did something generous: The embattled Democratic senator from Louisiana, herself in the midst of an exceedingly tough re-election race, used…
Read MoreVia The New York Times Beyond its durable imprint on American civic life, the Watergate scandal of four decades ago left its mark on political language. For one thing, that suffix will not go away. Commit a major folly, and…
Read MoreVia Baltimore Sun Like most candidates running for re-election, Rep. John Sarbanes has spent much of his time recently at fundraisers, pressing the flesh in pursuit of campaign cash. But donors who show up to meet the Baltimore County Democrat…
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