Nextgov takes a look at how political campaigns may use Twitter for fundraising or generating support. Crunching the numbers on Twitter traffic patterns suggests that the San Francisco-based site could be an effective fundraising tool in time for the 2010 midterm elections. While no official statistics are available, early data suggests that the click-through rate […]
Day: April 7, 2009
Justice: South Africa v. USA
The Times reports that before South Africa’s presidential election this month, prosecutors dropped charges against candidate Jacob Zuma, saying their case was tainted. The Times reports that after a controversial trial held during the the 2008 election season for Alaska’s hotly-contested Senate seat resulting in a guilty verdict, prosecutors today dropped charges against Sen. Ted Stevens, […]
Book Banning
Sean Parnell of the Center for Competitive Politics got this letter to the editor published in today’s Times. The letter refers to a piece of government lawyer Malcolm L. Stewart’s argument before the Supreme Court in Citizens United. Defending campaign finance restrictions that limited the ability of a documentary about Hillary Rodham Clinton from being […]