The Supreme Court’s Citizens United vs. FEC decision, which allowed for corporations and unions to spend freely from their treasuries, opened the floodgates of campaign spending and has increased the number of off-year campaign commercials dramatically. Although 2012 will undoubtedly…
ALTHOUGH most Americans are ringing in the New Year with some much needed rest and relaxation, the Republican Presidential contenders are spending their days furiously campaigning across Iowa for the state’s Republican caucuses on January 3. Indeed, at rallies and…
Rick Perry’s Last Chance for Victory THIS is Rick Perry’s last chance. This is, in fact, the last chance of the conservative base of the GOP to muster its resources and deal Mitt Romney, the frontrunner for the Republican Presidential…
Big Money and the 2012 Race for the White House THE sun beat down on the crowd outside the Federal Election Commission headquarters, but the scores of assembled people seemed unfazed. Instead, they stared transfixed at the man they had…
Charles “Buddy” Roemer III served as the 52nd Governor of Louisiana, from 1988 to 1992. Originally elected as a Democrat, Roemer switched to the Republican Party in 1991. He was a member of the US House of Representatives from 1981…
The Governor of Puerto Rico A Heartbeat Away From the Presidency? John Adams once described it as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived.” John Nance Garner said the it was worse than “a pitcher of…
Could ‘Amtrak Joe’ Swing the 2012 Election? There have been some pretty terrible Vice Presidential nominees in America’s history. Andrew Johnson, for example, likely chosen by Abraham Lincoln because he added geographic diversity to the ticket, reportedly showed up drunk…
Tuesday, November 8 marked the surprising defeat of Mississippi’s “Personhood Amendment.” The ballot measure, also known as Initiative 26, which was widely expected to pass, was trounced by an overwhelming margin of 58 – 42. The Colorado-based group called Personhood…
