Category: Campaign Finance and Elections

With dozens of cable, radio, web-based, and print outlets covering the campaign, obviously there’s a ton of punditry out there. Much of it, we’ve noticed, is repetitive, one-sided, or simply misinformed. GAI is hoping to add something useful to the discussion that you may not have heard or read yet.

In what has become the most quoted axiom in modern campaign finance, Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and John Paul Stevens opined in 2003, “Money, like water, will always find an outlet.” That outlet in the 2012 campaign is the “Super PAC,” a creature spawned by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United

Replete with detailed descriptions of policy accomplishments, challenges, and goals, State of the Union addresses are rarely the stuff of high drama. President Obama mostly adhered to this predictable formula in his January 27 State of the Union address, save for one moment. In speaking about the influence that special