Democrats have raised more money than Republicans, as stories in both The New York Times and Politico point out today. It’s no secret among those tracking political spending, but the news could come as a surprise to some readers who have closely followed the coverage of reporters (including More…
With all the public barbs being traded back and forth between the Chamber of Commerce and the Obama administration, it’s easy to forget that the Chamber is backing at least one Democrat this year in a pretty public way. In today’s Charleston Gazette, Chamber president Thomas Donohue explained once again More…
When Obama reprimanded groups like Crossroads GPS and the Chamber of Commerce for soliciting secret funds to fuel GOP attack ads, Karl Rove bragged on Fox News, “The president, by attacking American Crossroads, has helped drive people to our website and has helped to raise the amount of money that we More…
While there’s certainly no longer any chance that the DISCLOSE Act, which fell short of overcoming a GOP filibuster by just one vote the other week in the Senate, will have the chance to unmask the donors behind the large nonprofits, unions and business leagues spending millions in the More…
Two powerful interest groups used a Senate Small Business Committee hearing today to call for an end to the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ken Buck, Colorado’s GOP senate candidate and Tea Party favorite, is taking the high road — sort of. The Denver Post’s blog reported yesterday that Buck has announced he won’t run any negative ads against his opponent, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), but he hasn’t exactly tried to distance himself More…
The Obama administration is this week proposing a series of expensive tax breaks for businesses as part of a larger effort to create new jobs: $100 billion to make permanent a research and development tax credit and $200 billion to let companies to deduct the full cost of the More…
From Friday, but still worth noting, is a rather comprehensive list compiled by the Think Progress blog of all the monetary pledges conservative groups have made for spending in the upcoming November election:
In case you haven’t read it already, Patrick Caldwell’s profile of the post-Citizens United landscape for campaign spending gets at a number of important trends. First, while 527 groups like MoveOn.org and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth told much of the story of spending during the last few election More…
When the Supreme Court decided Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission in Jan., 2010, supporters of campaign finance reform warned that a torrent of corporate money and corruption would soon flow throughout the country. At his State of the Union address in January, President Obama attacked the Court’s ruling as More…
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