We made two major upgrades to the site overnight.
One area where we’ve been behind for a while is on our mobile site. Overnight we launched an entirely new mobile site for smartphones. It’s been in development for a few months. It is dramatically faster and smoother than the old site. And it includes access to a number of parts of the site that were never available on smartphone mobile before.
This is an intentionally provocative headline. But I think it’s merited.
Republicans in the past always had a big edge when it came to small donor fundraising because they had a very robust direct mail infrastructure and because the demography of the GOP fit nicely with that kind of fundraising. That began to change dramatically a bit over a decade ago when new organizing and the cash channel of the internet got Democrats into the game with a vengeance – first most visibly with the 2004 Dean campaign and then at an entirely new level with President Obama. They were the most visible. But it was happening in smaller races around the country over the course of the decade. But we’re now seeing, at least on the GOP side, how the Supreme Court’s changes in campaign finance laws are rapidly diminishing the role of small donors.
This is not a good climate for defending Denny Hastert. And what I’m about to do isn’t defending Hastert. But I am struck by how rapidly and totally he is being abandoned or written out of the history of various institutions on the basis of what are still only accusations.
Meet the man who is pushing the Supreme Court to end ‘one person, one vote.’
Guy who held a Muhammad cartoon contest in front of the Mosque attended by the two guys who wanted to shoot up the Geller Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, has now launched a GoFundMe page to raise $10 million “to protect his family.”
We’re now seeing the on-rush of what we might call for lack of a better word the “why not” or WTF candidates of the 2016 GOP race. Lindsey Graham’s entry into the race makes it basically certain. But it’s hard to see how Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum aren’t more or less in the same category. Certainly every cycle has a few of these folks – either there to make a point, increase name recognition or simply on an ego trip that no one had desire or ability to intervene to stop. But does Lindsey Graham have issues that Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio can’t raise for him? And what does Rick Santorum need to get in the mix? Is Mike Huckabee going to drive up his name recognition for a 2024 run?
Clinton campaign lawyer files suit against new vote restriction law in Scott Walker’s Wisconsin.