campaign issues

The campaign spending in the Georgia special election ended up running over $50 million, ~$20 from the Republicans and ~$30 from the Democrats. It seems to me that in the digital age money would become less important as candidates can reach large numbers of people through various social media...

Early in the primary season, one of the favorite topics of the punditry was how Romney's Mormonism made him unelectable. The closer he came to becoming the inevitable nominee, the less we heard of this as an issue in the campaign. Now it seems apparent that there is a journalistic embargo in...