Mccain Public Financing

McCain Gets Pass From Campaign Finance Lawyers

CQ Politics | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics


Attorneys for the Federal Election Commission (FEC) have recommended giving Republican presidential candidate John McCain a pass on his decision earli...

Newsweek: How McCain Is Skirting His Own Spending Caps

Newsweek | Andrew Romano | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics


Republicans, it seems, are finally showing McCain the money. Last week, we wrote that despite the vast disparity between John McCain's and Barack Ob...

McCain's Public Financing Flip-Flops

Daniel Burrell | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics


Daniel Burrell

As a candidate, he has been all over the map on the issue of public financing during the primaries. McCain's recent attack on Barack Obama is political hypocrisy at its worst.

Jason Linkins

Broder Leads Off Column On Gerrymandering WIth Pointless, Distorted Shot At Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media


David Broder is up in arms about gerrymandering, and has written all about it in the op-ed pages of the Washington Post today. As far as his take on ...

Jason Linkins

McCain Surrogate Hits Obama On Public Financing, Sidesteps On McCain Loan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics


On CNN's American Morning today, McCain surrogate Nancy Pfotenhauer continued last week's attacks on Senator Barack Obama's decision to opt out of pub...

Thoughts on Sen. Obama's Decision to Opt Out of Public Financing

Rick Hasen | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics


Rick Hasen

I find Obama's decision completely defensible and unsurprising. The system is broken. We cannot expect opt ins by successful candidates, especially in the internet age.

Sam Stein

Obama Floated Idea Of Voluntarily Capping Donations

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics


During a private fundraiser last month, Sen. Barack Obama said he was "considering" voluntarily restricting the amount of money he could raise in a ge...

Obama Lawyer: Bush Manipulating FEC For McCain

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics


Obama counsel Bob Bauer, on his always-punchy personal blog, considers the newest appointments to the FEC and writes that the regulatory body is being...

Throwing FEC Commissioner Mason Under the Bus to Help McCain?

Rick Hasen | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics


Rick Hasen

Bush has made a move to break the impasse over Federal Election Commission nominations, and the result may impact the enforcement of McCain's public financing withdrawal request.

The Collapse of the Public Financing System for U.S. Presidential Campaigns: Blame Congress, Not the Candidates

Rick Hasen | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics


Rick Hasen

It is true that both McCain and Obama have been trying to have it both ways on the public financing question. But the fault lays not so much with them as with Congress.

McCain Financing Structure With RNC Skirts Intention Of Public Finance

Huffington Post | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics


The media has been abuzz over speculation that John McCain will accept public financing in the general election. The attention has overshadowed a new...

John McCain To Accept Public Financing

Politico | Jeanne Cummings | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics


John McCain is abandoning any hope of catching the Democrats in fundraising. Based on new financial disclosure reports released Sunday, and interview...

DNC Files Lawsuit Against McCain Over Public Financing

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Democratic Party officials want a federal judge to order an investigation into whether Sen. John McCain violated election laws by w...

John McCain Returns $3 Million To Donors, Signals Public Financing

Boston Globe | Scott Helman and Sarah Isenberg | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics


In another sign that John McCain is moving toward accepting public financing this fall, the Republican's campaign is returning about $3 million in che...

Will Thomas

Online Progressives File FEC Complaint Against McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Will Thomas | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics


The media may have lost interest in Sen. John McCain's fervent efforts to dodge campaign finance restrictions, but liberal bloggers are ratcheting up ...

A Pledge Worth Keeping

The Brennan Center for Justice | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home


The Brennan Center for Justice

If Obama is the Democratic nominee, both he and McCain should rapidly agree to accept public money in the general election, as sound campaign policy and as a statement of principle.

Campaign Finance Reform Group Says McCain is Breaking the Law

Jane Hamsher | Posted 02.28.2008 | Home


Jane Hamsher

John McCain's staunchest ally on campaign finance reform, Fred Wertheimer, says that it is illegal for him to be doing what he is doing.

McCain's Approaching Storm

Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics


Dylan Loewe

McCain will refuse matching funds, regardless of the FEC's proclamations. Doing otherwise would be tantamount to conceding the election. But he will not do so without consequence.

McCain Loan Raises FEC Questions

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The government's top campaign finance regulator says John McCain can't drop out of the primary election's public financing system u...

McCain Campaign Banked On Taxpayer-Funded Bailout

TPMmuckraker | Paul Kiel | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics


As The Washington Post reported on Saturday, John McCain's campaign struck a canny deal with a bank in December. If his campaign tanked, public funds ...

Clinton Hits Obama Over General Election Funds

Politico | Mike Allen | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics


Clinton campaign officials said Sunday that heading into the climactic primaries on March 4, they will try to make a major issue of Sen. Barack Obama'...

Financial Straightjacket: McCain May Be Locked Into Public Financing

Daily Kos | DHinMI | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics


The day of the Florida primary I wrote about John McCain's financial dilemma: Some months back McCain's campaign applied for federal matching cam...

Obama Won't Pledge to Take Public Funds

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics


DAYTON, Ohio — If Sen. Barack Obama becomes the Democratic nominee, he faces a financial dilemma: Use his vaunted fundraising operation for the ...

McCain Will Accept Public Financing If Opponent Does

Financial Times | Edwards Luce | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics


John McCain's campaign said he would accept public financing in the general election were his Democratic opponent to do so, raising the prospect that ...