Category: FEC

The Times reports that the Obama campaign “has upended standards for raising money in presidential campaigns.” The impact on the way presidential campaigns are financed is likely to be profound, potentially providing an epitaph on the tombstone of the existing public finance system.

The Times reports that the Obama campaign has “unleashed an advertising campaign of a scale and complexity unrivaled in the television era.” The huge gap has been made possible by Mr. Obama’s decision to opt out of the federal campaign finance system, which gives presidential nominees $84 million in public money and prohibits them from […]

President Bush signed H.R. 6296, which extends the FEC’s administrative fines program until the end of 2013.