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How many candidates will be outgunned by outside groups in 2018?
A disturbing trend has emerged in our elections: Fewer and fewer races are truly competitive, but the ones that are see a surge of spending by outside groups. As a…
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Editor’s note: The special election will head to a runoff on June 20.
As people head to the polls today to vote in the race for the open seat in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, let’s take a look at the money behind the politics.
The seat was formerly held by Republican Rep. Tom Price and opened when he was confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Trump administration earlier this year. Since then, a deluge of outside money and campaign contributions have flooded into the scuffle as a crowded field of candidates vies to represent the district in Congress:
(Source: Issue One analysis of campaign finance filings with the Federal Election Commission)
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A disturbing trend has emerged in our elections: Fewer and fewer races are truly competitive, but the ones that are see a surge of spending by outside groups. As a…
Analysis
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