...vernor’s constituents and, like Romney, he is considered more of a moderate within his party. With the race this close, undecided or unsure voters will be watching these debates to get a final feel for both candidates and the campaigns will be ready and eager to pounce on any slipups or poor performances. The second is the continued development (or lack thereof) of the economic recovery. There are two remaining national jobs reports (September an...
...e not dissimilar to the increase from 2004 to 2008 (164%). To be fair, even before the Citizens United ruling, “social-welfare groups” known as 527 organizations could raise unlimited amounts of money from individuals and run campaigns without being accountable to a party or candidate. They were unlikely to do so, because there was considerable legal risk – three famous 527 groups (swiftboat veterans amongst them) violated federal laws on disclos...
...olitical office. To maintain the integrity of the campaign process, candidates are strictly forbidden by law from interacting or otherwise cooperating with their friendly super PAC in any way, and donations to the candidates’ campaigns proper still may not exceed the limit of $2,500 per donor. Some have claimed that super PACs are stealing the election and placing the outcome of the race into the hands of a few old men in a smoke-filled room. How...
...fight to sever over 300 years of partnership within one of the world’s most powerful nations will indeed be wrought with intrigue and bitterness. To his credit, Salmond certainly had a more civil tone than the leaders of past campaigns for decentralization. “It’s Scotland’s Oil!” was the rowdy chant of the SNP in the 1970s, when the discovery of oil in the North Sea strengthened the case for a fiscally independent Scotland, with home rule designa...
...rganic? Fair-labor practices or economic sustainability? And ultimately it is up to the usually overworked consumer to keep herself informed. The idea of ethical consumption seems to have undergone a shift away from the major campaigns and boycotts of generations past toward a more quotidian kind of conscious consuming. This has led to the endless confusion mentioned above. It is not often that people picket outside of companies they disagree wit...
...ion still is so that they can pressure their governments to increase funding for anti-slavery research and policy). Reclaiming the word “slavery” will not end slavery by itself, but it is an important step creating rhetorical campaigns that can be used to inspire large-scale change. If we rightfully accept that modern slavery is slavery, the contemporary situation contains all the horrors that the name implies. Today’s slaves are from a variety o...
...So we emailed excel sheets of numbers to individuals and groups to call through on their cell phones. We called it “Donate your minutes for Dahroug.” Apparently we were onto something: Four years later the major presidential campaigns were using the concept to have supporters call voters from lists and scripts they could download onto their home computers! Use of the internet helped my campaign win a major endorsement. In 2004, just as I began c...
...Finally, it is important to note that we cannot count on the legislative branch to regulate these racketeers, because after all, congressional candidates depend on the same pool of concentrated wealth to fund their political campaigns as the president. It is clear now that the federal system of checks and balances is no longer sufficient to guard against despotism and it cannot be relied upon to dispense justice impartially. The extreme concentr...
...ns and diplomatic advisors may also counter pessimistic claims regarding the fate of Antarctica by mentioning that all nations have a greater interest in maintaining even a fragile peace than engaging in destabilizing illegal campaigns overseas to get more natural resources. No theoretician has yet predicted, though, how far nations could go to bolster their energy supply, considering that energy security is particularly critical to economic secu...
...15 school with 15,000 students. The tens of thousands of college students living in Missouri (and other toss-up states) represent an unexplored avenue for future political success. College students are often ignored by major campaigns (outside of cursory social media efforts) because they do not donate meaningful amounts of money. That strategists put most emphasis on potential donors is understandable, but college students—whose political alleg...
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