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NEWS ABOUT: McCain Feingold

McCain Feingold stories: 14 news summaries

High Court May Lift Restrictions on Corporate Cash in Politics

Firms could be allowed to spend freely on ads

Aug 23, 09 2:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - September 9 could mark a watershed in campaign finance, as the Supreme Court hears a special argument for overturning long-standing rules that restrict corporations from buying political advertisements, the Los Angeles Times reports. The court has used the case of Hillary: The Movie, a documentary that a lower courts decided... More »

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Hillary Clinton • free speech • campaign finance • First Amendment • McCain Feingold • corporations • US Supreme Court

GOP Lawsuits Aim to Undo McCain-Feingold Reforms

Party challenges limits on 'soft money' donations, coordination with candidate

Nov 13, 08 11:30 AM CST
(Newser) - The Republican Party, smarting over its defeat at the hands of Barack Obama’s fundraising machine, is suing to defang the campaign-finance bill John McCain sponsored, the Washington Times reports. Two suits to be filed today will challenge the legislation’s limits on so-called “soft money” and the parties’... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • RNC • campaign finance • McCain Feingold • lawsuit

ANALYSIS

 Obama Ad Blitz 
 Stifles McCain 

Dem using massive fundraising edge to outspend GOP by as much 8-1

Oct 15, 08 1:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Over the past three weeks, Northern Virginia TV viewers have seen 1,342 commercials from Barack Obama … and eight from John McCain. Obama is dominating the airwaves, Politico reports, outspending McCain and the Republican National Committee as much as 8-1 in some markets, blunting GOP attacks with a sustained... More »

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campaign finance • McCain Feingold • Obama 2008 • campaign advertising • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

Time Travel: Google Shows You the Web in 2001

Site boasted of indexing 1.3B pages (it's 8B now) ... and YouTube wasn't yet one

Oct 1, 08 2:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - To honor its 10th birthday, Google put up a search engine that reflects the web in 2001, TechCrunch reports. Other than the Yahoo-esque exclamation point in Google’s logo, the search engine has not changed that much since—but searches show the web, and the world, have:
  • "iPod"
... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Google • Internet • LeBron James • David Ortiz • iPod • McCain Feingold • Twitter

McCain Camp Strives to
Skirt McCain-Feingold 

Expert on campaign finance reform laws helps McCain test the limits

Sep 20, 08 7:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain is making a concerted effort to get around the campaign finance laws he championed, the New York Times reports. A lawyer who played a key role in defending the reform act known as McCain-Feingold from challenges is now on the McCain team, expertly advising on the loopholes through... More »

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John McCain • campaign finance • McCain Feingold • campaign funds • Russ Feingold • 527 groups

OPINION

 McCain 
 Biographer: 
 He's Lost  
 His Principles 


McCain's best accomplishments might have been cynical maneuvering

Sep 18, 08 4:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Drew liked McCain—she even wrote a fawning biography, Citizen McCain, in 2002. She respected the centrist who emerged after McCain’s failed 2000 primary bid, who broke from Bush on tax cuts and campaign finance reform. But watching McCain’s current campaign maneuver back to the right, she... More »

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John McCain • campaign finance • GOP • McCain Feingold • maverick • Republican candidate • Sarah Palin

McCain Backers Finding Ways Around Law He Sponsored

GOP governors fund is major finance loophole

Jul 3, 08 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Desperate to keep up with Barack Obama's powerful fundraising apparatus, John McCain’s allies have found ways of skirting the very campaign finance laws the Arizona senator helped write, the Wall Street Journal reports. Republican strategists are pushing donations toward a fund used to elect governors—not subject to dollar... More »

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John McCain • campaign finance • McCain Feingold • Campaign Finance Reform • 527 groups • Republican Governors Association • McCain 2008

ANALYSIS

Death Knell Tolls for Campaign Finance

Obama snub of public cash highlights weakness of system

Jun 20, 08 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's decision to forgo public financing for his presidential campaign represents the biggest challenge yet to the troubled, loophole-filled system. But while the Illinois senator is now poised to spend a record amount to win the presidency, the explosion of  Internet donations that have propelled his campaign might actually... More »

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Barack Obama • campaign finance • McCain Feingold • online donations • Election 2008 • public funding

ANALYSIS

How the GOP Went Broke

Legislation, bad governance cost Republicans their financial advantage

May 15, 08 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Republican Party has known crises before, but it's always held its own against the Democrats with fundraising prowess. But the GOP finds itself demoralized and impoverished, and seemingly without the funds needed to avoid more losses like the one suffered Tuesday in Mississippi. Politico looks at how the party... More »

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Tom DeLay • McCain Feingold • Sarbanes Oxley • Republican Party • campaign fundraising • soft money • National Republican Congressional Committee

ANALYSIS

Saint John Still Tainted by Senate Murk

Ethics crusader is still no stranger to
lobbying culture

Mar 27, 08 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - With John McCain the presumptive Republican nominee, Democrats are rushing to expose chinks in the Arizona senator's saintly armor, Michael Scherer reports in Time. Though McCain talks tough about special interests, he has often appeared to have done their bidding. He once, for example, wrote a letter on behalf of... More »

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John McCain • Howard Dean • McCain Feingold • Dish Network • Campaign Finance Reform • lobbyist • Democratic National Committee • lobbying • FedEx • Senate Commerce Committee • McCain 2008 • AT&T • Vicki Iseman • Keating Five • Qwest Communications • 1996 Telecommunications Act • Federal Communications Commission • Public Citizen

Feds Taking Closer Look at McCain Loan

Could lock him into matching funds—
and $54M limit

Feb 21, 08 12:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Today just isn’t John McCain’s day. The Federal Elections Commission says it may not allow the presumptive Republican nominee to drop out of the federal matching funds program, because he used it as collateral for a $4 million loan he took out to fund his cash-strapped primary campaign... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • McCain Feingold • Campaign Finance Reform • matching funds • Federal Election Commission • McCain 2008 • David Mason • Trevor Potter

Supremes Let Up on Political Ad Limits

in 5-4 reversal, court rules 'issue ads' don't count as endorsements

Jun 25, 07 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Conservatives on the Supreme Court weakened one of the major strictures of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law today, relaxing the definition of prohibited ads in the run-up to federal elections. An increasingly familiar 5-4 majority declared that "issue ads," which stump for political platforms without explicitly endorsing a... More »

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Samuel Alito • John Roberts • campaign finance • First Amendment • McCain Feingold • issue ad • protected speech • US Supreme Court

Corporate Donors Snub McCain

It's payback time for a career as Senate ethics reformer

Jun 18, 07 5:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain is lagging far behind his GOP primary rivals in fundraising, in part because he's alienated so many big corporate donors in his Senate career. All that straight talk about minimizing the influence of money on politics has taken its toll, the New York Times notes. One defense industry... More »

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John McCain • campaign finance • contractors • McCain Feingold • Armed Services Committee • Chris Dodd • campaign fundraising • donor • snub

High Court
Eyes McCain-
Feingold 

Alito, Roberts may reverse ban on "issue ads" during campaign

Apr 26, 07 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court looks poised to pull an about face on the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law by striking down its strictures on "issue ads"—pre-election commentary that mentions candidates by name. Sandra Day O'Connor joined a majority in upholding the ban in 2003; Alito and Roberts may provide... More »

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Antonin Scalia • Samuel Alito • John Roberts • McCain Feingold • Campaign Finance Reform • political action committees • US Supreme Court

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