In private meetings last week, Hillary Clinton pledged in New Hampshire to work with state parties in “early states” to help them rebuild. At first appearance, this would seem to be an amazing boon. The trope goes that Obama for America had so thoroughly cornered the organizing market...
Read More »One of the lovely quirks of our political finance system is the role of “dark money” spent by organizations that DON’T have to disclose their donors. Where does it go? Thanks to a MapLight analysis of Federal Elections Commission data, we can see the Senate races that these...
Read More »Poster child for brain-dead TV-buying, 2012 edition A couple of recent articles have highlighted a flood of money entering Senate races via “independent expenditure” groups, some of them narrowly focused: By the fall, political operatives expect that candidate allies will try to...
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