Campaigning Through Cable: Examining the Effect of National News Appearances on Congressional Candidate Fundraising

• In Event: The Politics of Fundraising

Brief Overview

We use FEC fundraising records and complete CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News transcripts to see if candidate news appearances lead to enhanced fundraising, greater out of state fundraising, and differences between opinion and hard news hours.

Authors

• Seth Benson, United States Military Academy

• Scott Limbocker, United States Military Academy, West Point