Larry Makinson
Larry Makinson
campaign finance looking ways
There are two ways of looking at campaign finance,
buffer longer money provides race voters
The money provides a buffer that could keep Bradley in the race longer than the voters would.
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In the vast majority of races around the country, there is no question who is going to win. Absent an indictment or scandal or $1 million in the bank, it's awfully difficult to unseat an incumbent.
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This is a story about what one election hath wrought to the PAC dollars, ... Again, being used to watching these things move very incrementally, it looks like the glacier just calved off and the Democrats were the victims in that one.
keeping track
We're going to be keeping track of those IOUs, who they are to, and what is being done about them.