Jul 26, 2004 ... “With a single elected president if you're going to have a chance to win the states,  which are all awarded on a winner-take-all basis, again you don't ... Third party  candidates also are at a disadvantage because of federal campaign finance laws , rules that dictate who can enter presidential debates, and a ...
Only candidates seeking nomination by a political party to the office of President  are eligible to receive primary matching funds. In addition, a candidate must  establish eligibility by showing broad-based public support. He or she must raise  in excess of $5,000 in each of at least 20 states (i.e., over $100,000). Although an  ...
Laws and regulations regarding campaigning, funding, and functioning of  political parties are developed to minimize the potential disruptive influence of  political ... Many electoral legal frameworks allow persons to register and  participate as candidates in an election even if they are not nominated by a  political party or a ...
Ballot access rules, called nomination rules outside the United States, regulate  the conditions under which a candidate or political party is entitled either to stand  for election or to appear on voters' ballots. The criteria to stand as a candidate  depend on the individual legal system, however they may include the age of a ...
Jan 17, 2012 ... The political season is upon us (candidates are in South Carolina as I write this)  and with it the POMP (Punditry Outrage about Money in Politics) season. ....  imagine re-running a race between two candidates but varying the campaign  spending of each; repeat that exercise enough times and you have an ...
Going to public financing really disadvantages Democrats because you're not able to raise funds between the day you win the primaries and the time you're officially nominated.