Money -- "The Mother's Milk of Politics." Later this week we will talk in class about campaign financing. With McCain-Feingold (BCFA, 2002) we now are seeing changes in donation levels for individuals every campaign cycle. Now an individual can give $2500 (unless there is a primary and then it is $5K) and a PAC can give $5000. Here is the FEC page with all the other donation rules.
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Love (or Hate) and why/why not -- a site from Gallup Poll which shows "the state of the states" and includes changes in political affiliation, the economy and even health from 2008, 2009 and 2010. You can use this data in part to decide what states to target with what type of plans (hint, focus on Iowa and Illinois for our caucus). If nothing else, this is a great example of the data professional polling organizations offer to candidates and campaign handlers.
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