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 07.15.2008 | 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 07.04.2008 | 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 07.04.2008 | 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 07.01.2008 | 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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.16.2008 | 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 05.15.2008 | 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...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.29.2008 | 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 04.29.2008 | 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 04.22.2008 | 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 04.12.2008 | 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 04.03.2008 | 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 ...
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 03.28.2008 | 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 ...
CQ Politics | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics