The graph comes from Michael Miller (UIS political science professor), and it shows the difference that clean-election funding of the sort you see in Arizona and Maine makes in campaigns.
The context for Miller’s post is that the Supreme Court is considering a case that could wipe out clean-election programs all across the country. The specific charge being brought against the policy is that it unfairly restricts candidate speech because it increases funding to clean-election candidates when their opponents spend enormous sums against them. How does this restrict speech?
Miller's work was spotlighted in Ezra Klein's Washington Post blog on March 23, 2011.
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