In the wake of Senator Barack Obama's decision last month to bypass public financing for the general election, his campaign is embarking on a spree of...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
Perhaps the next time he starts whining about Obama and public financing, some brave reporter will ask John McCain the $1,300 question: "When, Senator, will you stop breaking the law?"
Brian Palmer | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Even if one disagrees with his call on public financing, Obama did a principled thing: he made a tough choice, and then he defended it publicly. That's democracy in action.
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 ...
Tim Dickinson | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Had Obama accepted public financing, the same people who are now squawking about "tactics over truth" would have instead been pillorying the candidate for blithely throwing his biggest gun in the river.
John K. Wilson | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
It was McCain who never tried to meet Obama on campaign finance. As the story has unfolded, the press consistently fails to mention that McCain, not Obama, violated the campaign finance laws.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Amidst all the attacks on Obama's public funding "flip-flop," how much have you read in the old media about the fact that McCain has completely reversed himself on public financing -- and is currently breaking campaign finance law on a daily basis?
Matthew Dowd | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Obama's brand involves a new kind of politics, something that doesn't involve political expediency -- which is why it was a blunder to flip flop on public campaign finance for the general election.
Talking Points Memo | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Here are some new fundraising numbers that complicate the notion that Obama will have an enormous fundraising advantage over McCain this fall: The Rep...
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...
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Our goal shouldn't be to keep money out of politics -- but rather to keep big money out of politics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
One of the principal authors of the most significant campaign finance legislation since Watergate said he was neither "outraged" nor "surprised" with ...
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 06.19.2008 | Politics
On Thursday, Sen. Barack Obama announced that he was opting out of the public financing system, in the process forgoing "more than $80 million in publ...
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home
With this bold move, Obama is going straight past McCain to the source of real GOP election funding, the RNC, which will be spending massively to defeat the Democratic nominee in the fall.
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
INDIANAPOLIS — The nation's system of public financing for presidential elections is "creaky" and needs to be updated, Sen. Barack Obama said Fr...
Trey Ellis | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
If Obama limits himself to not accepting more than $100 from any individual for the general election he could credibly claim a parallel public financing system.
ABC's Political Punch | Jake Tapper | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
Despite his previous pledge to enter into the public financing system should he be the Democratic presidential nominee,* Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., ha...
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.
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'...
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 ...
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New York Times | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics