Tag Archives: super PACs

The Empty Election

04/13/2012 Published on Politico
What has happened to the 2012 campaign?   This should be the most important election of our lifetime. But it’s clear that something is seriously wrong. How can we be having such an underwhelming, uninspiring and irrelevant election campaign at…

Watch Doug Schoen, John McCain, and Gov. Buddy Roemer Speak at Politics, Inc.

03/30/2012 Published on Reuters TV
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Super PACs’ Super Influence and Their Destruction of Our Political System

02/17/2012 Published on Forbes
Photo credit: Getty Images via @daylife As we enter the homestretch to Tuesday’s Michigan primary, there is another, arguably more important duel taking place beyond the battle between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum: the war between their super PACs. Restore…

Why The 2012 Election Will Ultimately Be A Fight Between Super PACs

02/09/2012 Published on Forbes
It is very easy to demonize either the right or the left. But fundamentally, we are in a situation where billionaires are funding presidential candidacies and bankrolling special interest campaigns – whether it is the Koch brothers, Foster Friess , …

What Keeps Obama Up Late at Night…And It’s Not Mitt Romney

02/07/2012 Published on Forbes
What’s keeping President Obama up at night is not Mitt Romney. The Republican presidential candidate has been sinking in the polls and trails Obama by close to 10 points, 52% to 43%, in the most recent Washington Post/ABC News poll.…

Casino Democracy: The Curious Case of President Obama and the Mexican Fugitive

Published on Forbes
The New York Times reported today that President Obama’s campaign would be returning over $200,000 in campaign contributions from family members of Pepe Cardona, a Mexican casino kingpin who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States. Cardona’s brothers,…