US president accepts external campaign funding groups as super-Pacs become increasingly influential

Showing during Sunday night’s Super Bowl football game, the ad with Clint Eastwood was seen by some as an endorsement of Barack Obama’s re-election

The post-New England Super Bowl loss riots in Amherst, Mass. were nothing compared to the soccer riots in Cairo (thank God), but can a psychiatrist explain why it happens at all? Something about groupthink? Can you imagine if the Patriots had won the game? “Like” TPC on Facebook here. Follow TPC on Twitter here.

While there are hundreds of prop bets (exotic wagers that include everything except just picking a game winner) for the New York Giants-New England Patriots Super Bowl, how about some political prop bets for the 2012 presidential election? For the most part the wagers available for the 2012 presidential election race are plain vanilla in nature that will offer you odds for who will win the Republi...

The TPC TGIF political cocktail of the week segment has celebrated such notable past and present Washingtonians as... Marion Barry with his signature cocktail The Dirty Hooker; Barney Frank and Super Fruity Sangria; and Ted Kennedy's The Chappaquiddick. Unfortunately this week, given the extremely negative dialogue and the antipathy that has been displayed between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingric...

Congratulations to this weeks winner, Joshuapundit! The Watcher's Council nominations for the week of January 30th were presented, the votes were cast, and the winners will now be announced! For those of you who who may be reading about the Watcher's Council for the first time, it is a group consisting of some of the top conservative minded bloggers from around the world. A group that Th...

Analyzing the New York Giants - New England Patriots game has been done in virtually every possible way by nearly every available pundit! Are there any unique ways left? Handicapping a Super Bowl or a horse race! As a young man I was a somewhat frequent visitor to the horse track. As a frequent visitor, I would spend a great deal of time pouring over the Racing Form trying to pick the eventual rac...

The release of the names behind candidates’ surrogate campaigning groups has put faces to an emerging force in US politics, write Richard McGregor and John Dunbar

Unions, rather than corporations, take advantage of new campaign finance laws to influence the presidential election race through the formation of super-Pacs

Wealthy business leaders have donated millions to Republican campaigners working to beat Barack Obama in the 2012 election, largely through new fundraising vehicles