Campaign Money Watch

If you don't have enough friends to donate their time or money to help elect you, it is extremely unlikely that you'll later have enough friends to vote you into office.

The clean-election group Campaign Money Watch announced just now that a new ad going after McCain for his ties to the gambling industry, will be airin...

The terrible truth is that you, Mr. B., will be unable to deliver the goods.

The voters in Kentucky are beginning to sour on their Senator Mitch McConnell. Three polls in a week show him in a battle for re-election -- all show his lead within the margin of error.

The McCains got two cellphone towers built right on their property by Verizon and AT&T -- two companies that have given John McCain both hundreds of thousands in campaign contributions.

The Keating Five connections are very troubling for what they mean today -- both on economic philosophy and on McCain's willingness to get cozy with special interests.

He's right about the cause of the crisis, but the recklessness, corruption, and greed also happened about 225 miles or so to the south, in Washington. And it hits very, very close to home for McCain.

The John McCain who fought for campaign finance reform in the past is not the same John McCain speaking tonight. Here's what he'll claim, and what the truth really is.

Exxon Mobil, which set a record today for the largest quarterly profit by any U.S. corporation, has paid $1.26 million to lobbyists currently working on the McCain campaign.

McCain's policy reversal on coastal drilling reveals much about what he's apparently willing to do for the right amount of money.

McCain's policy ignores the problem with having a campaign run by corporate and foreign lobbyists: they are happy to abandon their lobbying work temporarily to get valuable chits with the potential future president.

The truth is that the public financing system for presidential races has long been outmoded and the blame for the system's failure is at Congress' doorstep, not Obama's.