National Journal’s Under the Influence Blog (I added it to my blogroll at left) stated: The Obama campaign received $7.3 million in donations from the Internet and computer industries. Corporations cannot contribute to federal campaigns. For clarity, it might be best to say that the contributions were received from individuals employed in the Internet and […]
Category: FEC
Improve Public Financing?
Improving public financing is one proposal to arise out of the 2008 presidential election. The mountain of money raised by this year’s political candidates has spurred campaign-finance watchdogs to agree on a set of principles and start lobbying to improve the public financing of presidential elections. In particular, a group of seven nonpartisan organizations wants […]
Political Online Ad Spending
Spending for political ads went up this year, according to this article. If a recent online political ad revenue prediction is correct, President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign could account for at least half of all 2008 online political ad spending. The winning candidate’s campaign shelled out nearly $8 million through October to Google, Yahoo, Facebook, news […]