How Much For That Presidency In the Window?

Campaigns Have Become Pricier Than Ever. But Money Isn’t What Ails Our Politics Most.

Money has been a hot topic in the 2012 election—from how the campaigns are being financed post-Citizens United to the 99 percent and the national debt and Mitt Romney’s offshore bank accounts. But how much is this campaign—how much are elections in general—costing America? In a Zócalo/Cal Humanities “Searching for Democracy” event at the Bakersfield Museum of Art, Zócalo editor Joe Mathews, a fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University, put this question to two scholars who have thought about elections as much as anyone in …

Big Money. Small Money. More Money.

From the Rich to the Not So Rich, More Money Is Being Given in More Ways to Presidential Campaigns. Should We Worry?

No matter the issue, the debate in this year’s presidential election is all about money: about the national debt, about how much we spend on entitlements, on the high finance …