Attorneys for the Federal Election Commission (FEC) have recommended giving Republican presidential candidate John McCain a pass on his decision earli...
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...
Daniel Burrell | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
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.
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 ...
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...
Rick Hasen | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
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.
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...
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...
Rick Hasen | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
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.
Rick Hasen | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
The Brennan Center for Justice | Posted 03.20.2008 | Home
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.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 02.28.2008 | Home
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.
Dylan Loewe | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
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.
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...
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 ...
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'...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
CQ Politics | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics