[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/16/21

[Eric J Segall]

Your fake, false, and frivolous comparison between Trump and Abrams is horrifying.

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On Jan 16, 2021, at 7:44 PM, Ilya Shapiro <IShapiro at cato.org> wrote:

 Re Gelman’s gratuitous smear of Kemp: are we ok with unfounded allegations of “voter suppression” and refusing to accept election results because it’s Stacey Abrams but not ok with unfounded allegations of “voter fraud” and refusing to accept election results because it’s Donald Trump?

Ilya Shapiro
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Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
Cato Institute
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On Jan 16, 2021, at 7:30 PM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:


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Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Ftechnology%2F2021%2F01%2F11%2Ftrump-banned-social-media%2F%3Fitid%3Dlk_inline_manual_2&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402291499%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=OmV%2B0o0yvXwoAyY%2FyMNFo%2FJOCQRnkSdJ9weosL18sZA%3D&reserved=0> sites suspended President Trump <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Ftechnology%2F2021%2F01%2F14%2Ftrump-twitter-megaphone%2F%3Fitid%3Dlk_inline_manual_2&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402291499%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=bSBljw6Dn5%2FUdv2BZFNfmKo1F3OwKHdggLqon2mQYeQ%3D&reserved=0> and key allies last week, research firm Zignal Labs has found, underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the falsehoods poisoning public debate when they act aggressively.

The new research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm reported that conversations about election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 mentions across several social media sites in the week after Trump was banned from Twitter<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Ftechnology%2F2021%2F01%2F08%2Ftwitter-trump-dorsey%2F%3Fitid%3Dlk_inline_manual_4&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402301491%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=6Q4ZuNx9KVnTTNkX1zU2Jkqk1zJi%2BHEyDtHXtmRe0No%3D&reserved=0>.

Election disinformation had for months been a major subject of online misinformation, beginning even before the Nov. 3 election and pushed heavily by Trump and his allies.

Zignal found it dropped swiftly and steeply on Twitter and other platforms in the days after the Twitter ban took hold on Jan. 8.
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Prosecutors in Georgia appear increasingly likely to open a criminal investigation of President Trump over his attempts to overturn the results of the state’s 2020 election, an inquiry into offenses that would be beyond his federal pardon power.

The new Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, is already weighing whether to proceed, and among the options she is considering is the hiring of a special assistant from outside to oversee the investigation, according to people familiar with her office’s deliberations.

At the same time, David Worley, the lone Democrat on Georgia’s five-member election board, said this week that he would ask the board to make a referral to the Fulton County district attorney by next month. Among the matters he will ask prosecutors to investigate is a phone call Mr. Trump made in which he pressured Georgia’s secretary of state to overturn the state’s election results.
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Here is the nub of our predicament. Donald Trump attempted democracide, and he had help. The victim survived but suffered grievous wounds. American democracy now faces a long convalescence in an environment of ongoing attacks. Trump has not exhausted his malignant powers, and co-conspirators remain at large.

I do not mean to be taken figuratively. The president of the United States lost an election and really did try with all his might to keep the winner from replacing him. He did his level best to overthrow our system of government, and tens of millions of Americans marched behind him. But a coup d’état in America had seemed so unlikely a thing, and it was so buffoonishly attempted, that the political establishment had trouble taking it seriously. That was a big mistake.

It is still too soon to assess this moment in historic perspective, but we seem to be living through something like a next-to-worst-case scenario. Trump failed in the end—if we have reached the end—to maintain an illegal grip on power. But his attempted coup made too much headway for comfort, and his supporters are far from finished with their assault on majority rule.

Even so, there is good news to be found in the manner of Trump’s defeat. The system held. Enough officials did the right thing, when it counted, to fend off the overthrow of our government. And in this we can see a path forward….

The same drama played out still more publicly in Georgia, where Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, another Republican, defended the state’s election integrity against a ferocious assault by Trump. The president mocked him publicly and threatened him in a telephone call while demanding that Raffensperger “recalculate” the election outcome. Unaccountably, Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp—notorious for no-holds-barred voter suppression when he held Raffensperger’s job—backed up his secretary of state, even when Trump threatened to support an opponent in Kemp’s reelection race next year.

“If Brian Kemp had agreed to be completely lawless, he could have called in the state legislature and they could have tried to appoint a different slate of electors,” Richard Hasen, an election-law expert at UC Irvine, told me. “He could have refused to sign the certificate of the electors. I’ve never thought of Kemp as a voting-rights hero … but he was a hero here, stood up to tremendous pressure given the hold that Trump has over the Republican Party right now.”

So why did they do it? Why did Kemp and Raffensperger and Van Langevelde accept Biden’s victory—while nearly two-thirds of the U.S. House Republican caucus voted to overthrow the election? Why did Arizona’s Republican governor, Doug Ducey, sign the “certificate of ascertainment” of Biden’s win in his state—while the 18 state attorneys general, including his own<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdfw.cbslocal.com%2F2020%2F12%2F10%2F18-states-join-texas-general-election-supreme-court-lawsuit-swing-states%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402361456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=XAJtaGi3dKzIDFzcYxJmPQnx30n%2F4wa55xf7UgXfwAE%3D&reserved=0>, asked the Supreme Court to throw away results from elsewhere? Why did state legislators in Pennsylvania not attempt to appoint Trump electors—while signing a letter asking Congress to reject the Biden electors?

“I think it did depend on the personalities,” Kevin Kruse, a Princeton historian, told me. “I think you replace those officials, those judges, with ones who are more willing to follow the party line and you get a different set of outcomes … If enough people do that, if enough dominoes fall, the whole thing falls apart.”

Edward Foley, an Ohio State law professor, likewise told me that old-fashioned “personal virtue” saved the republic. Of Van Langevelde, he said: “There was intense pressure on him, and he looked like a pretty young guy. He really held firm, and the only thing to account for that is character.”

I see a more optimistic explanation, less contingent on the happenstance of personality. During Trump’s attempted coup, political actors did the right thing at the moments when the power of decision was directly in their hands. The Republicans who stayed true to the law, who chose to follow their duty, were the ones who had actual power to move events. Putting your name on a brief or a letter is a kind of performance—“a cheap act of virtue signaling, or vice signaling, depending on your perspective,” as Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford law professor, put it to me. Voting can be symbolic, too, when a resolution has no chance of passage. But when it came to concrete, meaningful steps—when state officials could actually have reversed an outcome by decertifying a vote or appointing Trump electors—there were enough Republicans who would not cross that line….

Baldly stealing the election for Trump could have been costly to men like Raffensperger and Kemp. The backlash in the general public would have been immense. A plurality of their voters, after all, had cast ballots for Biden. Even so, Persily said, “I also want to praise their integrity. I think they realized they had a higher obligation here to the democracy. We shouldn’t pretend that they didn’t pay a significant price. Their political futures in Georgia are really in doubt as a result of this.”

“They weren’t ready to give up on the American experiment,” Hasen said.
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Topic: Elections, Insurrection and Inauguration: What’s Next for Democracy?

Description: Following the recent insurrection at the United States Capitol, Americans have been left wondering how our democracy has faltered and what needs to be done to restore and strengthen it. Professor Richard Hasen joins us to discuss the 2020 election, the Capitol riots and the inauguration of President Joe Biden.

Jan 21, 2021 10:30 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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A progressive group is urging corporations to stop contributing to the Federalist Society after one of the conservative legal organization’s leaders was featured at last week’s rally that preceded the deadly riot on Capitol Hill.

Demand Justice told CNBC that it wants corporations to stop giving to the Federalist Society after member John Eastman, a lawyer and former law professor at Chapman University, spoke at the rally.

Several of the companies that have given to the Federalist Society as recently as 2019 have said they would either<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2021%2F01%2F11%2Ffacebook-halts-political-donations-after-capitol-riot.html&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402421423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=1E%2BMjbO8MM2uB%2BlEFRsDUVEdIU0xonCykhn4hMutTz4%3D&reserved=0> not contribute to Republicans who challenged the results of the presidential election, or would reevaluate or pause donations from their corporate political action committees. These companies and groups include Facebook, Google, T-Mobile, Verizon and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The Federalist Society’s 2019 annual report<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffedsoc-cms-public.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fupdate%2Fpdf%2FOr88zuHZXja1DgYNqbNeDtHby6RnGbDpdKy4vmLY.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402431422%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=xq9wJWn08Rbp9l96lTejh3atQbEs6ULp69s6ZhF9NS8%3D&reserved=0> shows that the five companies combined to give up to $400,000 to the group. The group finished that fiscal year with over $25 million in revenue. That report is the most recent available on the Federalist Society’s website. It is not clear whether these companies donated money to the Federalist Society recently. The next disclosure of donors could come later this year.

“These corporations can either take a stand against those who have supported acts of sedition or they can continue funding the Federalist Society, but they can’t do both,” Brian Fallon, the executive director of Demand Justice, told CNBC.

In a statement to CNBC, End Citizens United, a political action committee that has advocated for big money to be taken out of politics, blamed Eastman and the Federalist Society for the riot that occurred at the U.S. Capitol. Tiffany Muller, the group’s president, noted they are going to pressure corporations to end cut off funding for the group.

“We will make sure no one forgets the Federalist Society’s role on that dark day, and we’ll continue pressuring corporations to cease their funding to all traitors and terrorists,” Muller said.

None of the companies mentioned in this story responded to a request for comment. The Federalist Society did not return CNBC’s requests for comment.
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The 2020 election was defined by paradox and contradiction. Thanks to millions of poll workers, election officials, and citizens who stepped up to make our democracy work, the election was secure and free from systemic or significant fraud. A record 160 million Americans voted and had their voices heard. Yet still, voter intimidation and racial disparities in access to the ballot continued, our election system was revealed to be aging and unnecessarily confusing, Americans weathered a wave of disinformation and, of course, there were unprecedented efforts to delegitimize and overturn the election results—ultimately leading to a crisis the likes of which we’ve not experienced in modern history. In the end, Congress counted all of the electoral votes, but only after President Trump sought to both coerce federal and state officials to overturn the results, and incited a violent insurrection.

This attack on our democracy culminated with white supremacist rioters attacking the Capitol seeking to not only overturn the Constitutional order, but also to take hostages and assassinate members of Congress and the Vice President. While American democracy has survived this crisis so far, we will only be able to prevent the next one if we both 1) ensure accountability for all those who incited, abetted, and participated in the insurrection, and 2) adopt preventative reforms based on the lessons we learned in this election. Those lessons and reforms are the focus of this report.

The National Task Force on Election Crises is a nonpartisan group that was formed to help the country prevent and confront election crises, in order to protect a free and fair 2020 election. In this report, the Task Force highlights many challenges that emerged in the election, including instances in which the president undermined the electoral process. Of course, the Task Force would have highlighted challenges to a free and fair election and a smooth transition if they came from another presidential candidate.
Election administrators helped mitigate a crisis. State and local officials conducted the general election in spite of extraordinary challenges posed by a global pandemic. Officials from both parties worked together to expand voting options, recruit hundreds of thousands of poll workers, and become expert crisis communicators, often for the first time. At the same time, there were challenges and failures, including long lines in a number of states, complications stemming from absentee ballots, voter intimidation, isolated system malfunctions, and—above all—widespread challenges of disinformation and partisan polarization around efforts to make voting accessible.
Social media companies learned key lessons from 2016. Some platforms adapted their policies to be more vigilant against election-related disinformation in the 2020 election cycle, attempting to contextualize disinformation and slow its spread. That said, false claims were far-reaching, coming particularly from President Trump, his allies, and his family members. These claims resulted in widespread refusal to accept the results, and troubling threats of violence against election officials and others. Social media platforms also were used to both inspire and coordinate participation in the insurrection on January 6th.
Election reporting was careful and voters patient. Because of the unprecedented volume of absentee ballots and lack of pre-canvassing or processing in critical battleground states, preliminary results took much longer than usual. In general, the media and voters were prepared to wait for results and traditional and social media correctly described President Trump’s claims of victory as false. Outlets took care to explain why results may change during counting, were transparent about how election projections are made, and resisted political pressure to interfere with their decision desks. That said, this election proved that responsible reporting is no match for disinformation spread by candidates and political leaders.
President Trump’s refusal to accept the results badly damaged the perception of election legitimacy and led to the insurrection on January 6th. Baseless allegations of fraud, false claims of victory by President Trump, and attempts to overturn the result were supported by many Republican officials. This delayed the presidential transition, helped convince the vast majority of Trump’s supporters that the election had not been legitimate, and led to the attack on the Capitol on January 6th.
Efforts to disenfranchise voters and reverse the outcome were a threat to democracy. Starting on Election Night and continuing through to January, there were concerted efforts to delegitimize the election, seed doubt in the outcome, and overturn the results. These attempts included baseless lawsuits that sought to disenfranchise entire states and pressure state officials to interfere with the counting and certification of results. Attempts to overturn a legitimate, democratic election took a toll on the country and likely caused lasting damage to the perceived legitimacy and long-term stability of American institutions and our system of government.
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Editor’s note: Some of the money<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7chicago.com%2Ftrump-allies-helped-plan-promote-rally-that-led-to-capitol-attack%2F9477293%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402491384%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=f2ikOxfFtISEGtFrh0I2c42jqx3QZRnVzNflIdKbUfU%3D&reserved=0> used to organize the Jan. 6 pro-Trump “March to Save America” came from social welfare groups<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fhillary-clinton-is-starting-a-social-welfare-group-what-does-that-mean-78221&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402501375%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=vb%2BT42Hz5qRjdo%2FgHuOOqp%2FmoyBQCiXwgHOzBoISDHU%3D&reserved=0>. One of them, Women for America First<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-trump-protest-organizers-insight%2Fhow-trumps-pied-pipers-rallied-a-faithful-mob-to-the-capitol-idUSKBN29G2UP&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402501375%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=B9Zl4XJ2Z7gMgxVwuI5qi%2B9iRNr9COIiJkB2wtevm0w%3D&reserved=0>, notably obtained a permit<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonian.com%2F2021%2F01%2F05%2Fheres-what-we-know-about-the-pro-trump-rallies-that-have-permits%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402511372%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=05O%2FxsITXmaTgYLJXOcrtzddcI9pn9ZIgiJU8Er2ReA%3D&reserved=0> from the National Park Service for the rally – which preceded an assault on the Capitol in which at least five people died<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fktla.com%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fwhat-we-know-about-the-5-people-who-died-during-riot-at-u-s-capitol%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402511372%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2B6VtqU6TyXuAxdvc5Hq3%2BFq7UC0ZKueiSLwBBthYsY8%3D&reserved=0>. The Conversation U.S. asked nonprofit law scholar Ellen Aprill<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fhl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0%252C5%26q%3DEllen%2BAprill%26btnG%3D&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402521373%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=7F8Pl1YsKeWfSTcEiLy3SFZMYU9uGD2iqojZMeIgMu8%3D&reserved=0>, who served in the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy in the late 1980s, about possible ramifications for these nonprofits.
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Federal prosecutors in Harrisburg announced Friday they had found “insufficient evidence” of a crime in an election investigation that President Donald Trump and his allies had repeatedly touted as a sign of vote-rigging in Pennsylvania.

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The president then repeatedly cited it during his first debate against Joe Biden to bolster his baseless claims that widespread fraud would cost him the election.

In a since deleted tweet, a Trump campaign spokesperson pointed to the case, claiming: “Democrats are trying to steal the election.”

In his announcement Friday, Freed’s successor, Acting U.S. Attorney Bruce D. Brandler, said no criminal charges will be filed.

“The matter is closed,” he said in a statement.

Officials in Luzerne County, in Northeastern Pennsylvania, had blamed the mistaken decision to throw out the nine ballots — seven of which were cast for Trump, the other two of which remained sealed — on an unidentified and poorly trained temporary employee who had been hired to help handle mail ballots.

The votes were retrieved from the trash and counted. The Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office referred the matter to federal prosecutors in an abundance of caution.
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Government attorneys and municipalities fighting over the 2020 census asked a judge Friday to put their court case on hold, as Department of Justice attorneys confirmed the Census Bureau for now will not release numbers that could be used to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the process of divvying up congressional seats.

Department of Justice attorneys and attorneys for a coalition of municipalities and advocacy groups that had sued President Donald Trump’s administration over the 2020 census asked U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh to suspend their court case for 21 days so the administration of President-elect Joe Biden can take power and decide how to proceed.
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While we are on the subject of how the structure of campaign finance laws and practices can affect democratic governance, I want to remind readers of the recent empirical paper<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.liebertpub.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1089%2Felj.2019.0588&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402661285%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=DoDP4XOTNhv2wL5ciTgK6z%2FADS7wPrSpXxoA%2BnXm7Fg%3D&reserved=0> Michael Norton and I published, which shows that the more outside money is spent on elections, the more it fuels the poles of the parties. More money to the political parties and campaigns, rather than outside spending, produces more cohesion and less fragmentation within the party caucuses.
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This is a new article by Michael Barber, which further confirms what we’ve known about which donors support the ideological more extreme candidates and which support more moderates. I’ve written about these issues and what we know empirically about them in Participation and <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholarship.law.upenn.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1709%26context%3Djcl&data=04%7C01%7Cesegall%40gsu.edu%7C16235cfb68374f87aa8608d8ba80f88d%7C515ad73d8d5e4169895c9789dc742a70%7C0%7C0%7C637464410402691271%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=4588U9kF8JO2AE88iHrzLdwwONXX7oAM3BScOsXYSVc%3D&reserved=0> Polarization.

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This article demonstrates that limits on campaign contributions—which alter a candidate’s ability to raise money from certain types of donors—affect the ideologies of legislators in office. Using an original data set of campaign contribution limits in some US states over the last 20 years, I exploit variation across and within states over time to show that higher individual contributions lead to the selection of more polarized legislators, while higher limits on contributions from political action committees (PACs) lead to the selection of more moderate legislators. Individual donors prefer to support ideologically extreme candidates while access-seeking PACs tend to support more moderate candidates. Thus, institutional changes that limit the availability of money affect the types of candidates who would normally fund-raise from these two main sources of campaign funds. These results show that the connection between donors and candidates is an important part of the story of the polarization of American politics.
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