campaign finance reform
Open Thread for Night Owls & Early Birds
by Meteor Blades
Chris Bowers at OpenLeft wonders, What Is Your Favorite Contradictory McCain Attack?:
- Seventeen days after taking a trip abroad to Columbia [sic] and Mexico, five weeks after giving a paid campaign speech in Canada, and two months after criticizing Obama for not going to Iraq, the McCain campaign criticizes Obama for taking a trip abroad that includes a stop in Iraq
- Eleven days after holding a press conference to claim that Obama is a serial flip-flopper, McCain argues that Obama is the most extremist member of the Senate.
- Five days after releasing a documentary criticizing Obama for flip-flopping on Iraq, the McCain campaign argues that Obama is too inflexible on Iraq.
Whether it's Roe v. Wade or off-shore drilling or a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants, McCain has taken opposite sides. Is it flip-floppery? Or is it flim-flammery?
Posted July 25th, 2008 5:49 AM by Syndicated
Ari Melber: Netroots Nation Diggs Pelosi, Tubes Obama
by Ari Melber [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]
From The Nation. Champion's, a typical sports bar in Austin, Texas, ran a curious greeting on its scoreboard all weekend: "Welcome, Netroots!" The pulsing light...
Posted July 21st, 2008 3:49 PM by Syndicated
Top Arizona Donors Give McCain Cold Shoulder
by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]
Sen. John McCain's Arizona campaign chairman, fellow Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, is missing from McCain's list of 26 Arizona bundlers who have raised $50,000 or...
Posted July 17th, 2008 8:32 PM by Syndicated
Following up on Capuano and House Web Restrictions
by Matt Stoller [courtesy of Open Left - Front Page]
Posted July 13th, 2008 12:23 AM by Syndicated
Bob Ostertag: Obama, Money, and a Campaign Finance Proposal
by Bob Ostertag [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]
Obama is raising more money via the Internet in small donations than any candidate in history. Hooray! But it is just as true that he is raising more money from fat cat donations than any candidate in history.
Posted June 21st, 2008 2:58 PM by Syndicated
Musings Over Morning Coffee
by DemFromCT
So, this has been an interesting week. All the polls have Obama ahead (you can't find a single one that has McCain in the lead
, and Newsweek has Obama leading by a whopping 15.) Republican and conservative pundits are waxing wroth over Obama (their message is "Obama is everything I despise in a politician: a Democrat that can win"), though they manage to say it in astoundingly different ways. He's too strong, he's too weak, he's too something.
Posted June 21st, 2008 12:17 PM by Syndicated
Robert Creamer: Obama's Opt-Out of Public Financing Will Increase the Odds of True Public Financing for All Federal Races
by Robert Creamer [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]
Our goal shouldn't be to keep money out of politics -- but rather to keep big money out of politics.
Posted June 20th, 2008 2:36 PM by Syndicated
CNN's Jack Cafferty Rails At John McCain's Constant Flip-Flopping
by The Huffington Post News Team [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]
It's not everyday that Senator John McCain's tendency to switch positions on important issues - even seminal McCain issues like torture - are greeted by...
Posted June 18th, 2008 11:38 PM by Syndicated
DNC Sues FEC Over McCain, Redux
by looseheadprop [courtesy of Firedoglake]
After a little procedural hiccup, the DNC is once again set to sue the Federal Election Commission in federal court in DC. The purpose of the suit is to get the FEC to investigate McCain's unilateral withdrawal from the matching funds program.
Posted June 17th, 2008 10:02 PM by Syndicated
