The AP covers how candidates in Florida are using Twitter and Facebook. It sets up a test on how effective new communication and social networking can be in overcoming the name recognition and huge financial advantage held by the other major candidate in the race — Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, who’s more of an old […]
Day: August 30, 2009
Confirmations, Bargaining Chips, and Holds
The Post uses this editorial to discuss the pace of Senate confirmation of White House appointees. Lawmakers should be less quick to use confirmations as bargaining chips and should limit the use of holds. They should think about just how many positions really require Senate confirmation. And they might change the rules so that appointees […]
Virginia Corruption
The Center for Competitive Politics’ Sean Parnell wrote this letter to the editor of The Post in response to this earlier article on Virginia’s campaign finance laws (and the lack thereof).