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Even if only a small number were to withdraw their names and financial contributions, insisting on disclosure will have been worth the effort. Regardless, we deserve to know who they are.
The regime of campaign finance limits has been a failure. The only part of the effort that remains -- contribution limits -- is now responsible for increasing, rather than limiting, the power of money in elections.
It's not often that our Montana elections make national news two days running, first in a New York Times editorial, then in a PBS Frontline feature. ...
Former Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps spoke Thursday about whether the media are strengthening our democracy -- or destroying it. His assessment -- after serving for more than a decade overseeing the industry -- is disturbing.
Washington watchdogs are appalled by the sea of money washing over the 2012 election. The rest of the nation is appalled by how that money is used -- mostly on tit-for-tat attack ads that pollute the airwaves and undermine any respect for the democratic process.
In Colorado, voters will have an opportunity to weigh in on the money and power debate. We can vote in support of Amendment 65, which tells our congressional delegation that we're fed up with money controlling the debate.
The Romney that poked his head out of the ground last week was not the Romney that Republican activists presumed that they nominated. We saw glimpses once again of the Romney that once was -- and that Romney's primary opponents long warned against.
Even in the face of a weak economy and the huge money edge the Republicans have, voters have heard the case for Romney-Ryan economics and values, and they are rejecting it.
both parties' candidates think I'm too dumb to see through all this. They are also pinning their real hopes on the fact that they can keep me, and others like me, from voting for the other guy and in so doing assure their victory.
It was this middle ground that would be the crucial difference between becoming the leader of the free world and being the leader of the guest lecture circuit. You only have to look back to Clinton or Reagan and witness them debating policies to win undecideds as proof.
This is not the first hateful thing the Romney campaign has done, having race-baited time and again throughout this campaign.
Mitt Romney said Thursday that he was upset by the attacks of President Obama's campaign on him. What planet does Mitt Romney live on? Does Romney expect that the Democrats are going to unilaterally disarm?
That's about the same tone as the Obama ad. Way to go, I thought. So why isn't this what we generally get from these candidates, and from their respective parties?
While media outlets and pundits are practically telling him to hit the President's economic performance, his execution leaves something to be desired.
The American worker has been lied to for decades. Election year after election year, politicians pronounce the American worker the best in the world, as if this was meaningful. Rarely does a politician speak the truth: for decades now, American workers have been thrown to the wolves.
I personally would like to see President Obama and Governor Romney lay off private equity and immigration and focus on economic growth and jobs -- offering sensible plans for near term stimulus and long term deficit reduction.
