Joe Nocera's "Rethinking Campaign Finance" brought out all the Authoritarian rants about controlling campaign spending in the comments. For example the NYT Picks:
Let all elections be financed with public funds, with candidates receiving relatively equal amounts. No more free lunches, no more trips, no more money in funds that a candidate can pocket after leaving office, no more lobbying outside the hearing rooms of the Capitol, make all testimony televised (no exceptions), no more gifts of any kind.
Okay. So who decides who gets financed and who doesn't?
Conversely the Robert's Court recent decisions has been very good for moderates. In McCutcheon versus The Federal Election Commission the two party's central offices benefit but the Democrats are best organized to work it because of Obama's successful and centrally directed 2012 campaign apparatus is already in place for 2014 midterm elections. Republican's centralized and therefore coordinated efforts for campaigning are actually hampered by the stupid money gathered with the 2010 Citizens United decision where fund raisers can not communicate with candidates.
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