The article also mentions that Republicans accused Democrats of doing a similar-but-not-the-same kind of thing some years ago.<p>Please keep in mind that this is politicians behaving badly, not Republicans behaving badly. Yes this time it was Republicans, but both parties do it.<p>The problem is horrendous set of incentives for politicians; something Larry Lessig is trying to do something about. <a href="http://www.mayday.us" rel="nofollow">http://www.mayday.us</a>
Strange how "campaign finance laws" always seem to come down to suppressing speech.<p>Sounds like there's also serious doubt this is in any way illegal, e.g. this comment by "Daniel Tokaji, a professor of Constitutional Law at Ohio State University":<p><i>"A lot of things you and I would consider coordination are not coordination under the law. I don't think sharing polling data is going to be enough to establish that the campaign was materially involved in decisions about content, target audience or timing."</i><p>Outlawing "coordination" is a very dangerous slippery slope to go down, as Wisconsin recently showed.