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Campaigns and Elections

By cbaylor
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    Changes

  • Federal Election Campagin Ad

  • FIrst reform of the Federal Election Cmpaign act (FECA)

    -Restricted the amount that could be spent on media
    -Limited how much individuals/groups could donate to canidates
    -Limited how much canidates/their families could contribute to canidates
    -Prevented corporations/labor unions from directly participating in campaigns
    -Required disclosure of all contibutions and expenditures of more than $100
    -Created the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to administer and enforce the act's provisions

  • Supreme Court declares the provision inacted on the 1971 campagian spending limit for being unsontitutional

    The Supreme Court ruled it unconsitutional under the first amendment
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    Campaigns funded largely funded by the public purse

  • Parties raised almost $463 million through soft money contributions

  • Congress passed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act

    Also known as the McCain-Feingold Act

  • %36 of campagin funds spend on house races came from PACs

  • Barack Obama refuses federal funding for primaries

    First major party canidate in decades to refuse federal funding

  • Campagins are getting even more costly in 2011-2012

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  • FECA allows corporations, labor unions, and special interest groups to set up PACs to raise money for canidates

    PACs can contribute $5,000 per canidate per election, but there is no limit on the total amount a PAC contributes during an election cycle