The latest Newsweek includes a graphic-heavy story — dubbed The Big Fat Story — which promises to set out “8 Ways to Fix Our Politics.”
Of particular interest to this observer was the “fix” for the “problem” of expensive elections:
A nationwide “clean elections” system. Right now, if state candidates in Arizona or Maine agree to forgo private cash, they receive public subsidies covering the entire cost of a campaign, plus matching grants that help them keep pace with privately funded rivals.
North Carolina has the same system for appellate judicial elections and three Council of State races. The real problem? The U.S. Supreme Court just declared those matching funds unconstitutional, as Daren Bakst recently discussed with Carolina Journal Radio/CarolinaJournal.tv.
