Dollarocracy (70 page)

Right-to-work legislation,
61

Roberts, John,
78
,
86–87
,
88
,
90
,
91
,
92

Robinson, Rich,
56

Rockefeller, John D.,
225

Rockefeller, David,
30

Rolling Stone
magazine,
153

Romney, George,
41

Romney, Mitt,
13
,
34
,
36
,
60

        
2012 campaign,
37
,
39–40
,
41
,
113
,
114
,
119
,
123–124
,
134–135
,
146
,
162
,
176
,
196–197
,
203
,
205
,
217
,
222
,
224
,
235
,
242
,
244–245

        
personal characteristics,
41
,
65

Roos, Andrew,
243

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
22
,
23
,
32
,
133

Roosevelt, Theodore,
1
,
2
,
5
,
20
,
21
,
161
,
171
,
172

Roosevelt Institute,
79

Rosen, Jay,
207

Rosen, Jeffrey,
231
,
232
,
243

Rosenblatt, Alan,
226

Rosenstiel, Tom,
200–201
,
207

Rothschild, Matthew,
193

Rothstein, Joe,
197

Rove, Karl,
15
,
20
,
45
,
48–49
,
52
,
89
,
125
,
216
,
218
,
248

Ryan, Edward,
19
,
20
,
77

Ryan, Paul,
200

Sabato, Larry,
198
,
207

Salas, Carl,
134

Saliterman, Rob,
229

Sandbach, Walter,
144

Sanders, Bernie,
11
,
33
,
95
,
265

San Diego State University,
198

Santorum, Rick,
39
,
53
,
65

SBC Communications, Incorporated,
51

Scalia, Antonin,
78
,
90

Schlesinger, Arthur Jr.,
259

Schmidt, Eric,
231
,
236

Schudson, Michael,
154

Schultz, Ed,
xvi
,
215
,
216

Scott, Hugh,
143

Scott, Rick,
81

Scripps, Edward,
173

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
,
195

Selling of the President 1968, The
(McGinnis),
27
,
38

Senate Judiciary Committee,
73
,
81

Service Employees International Union,
90–93

Serwer, Adam,
207

Shapiro, Walker,
199–200

Sharpton, Al,
185

Shays, Daniel,
261

Sigelman, Lee,
128

Skocpol, Theda,
214–215
,
217

Smith. David,
135

Smith, Hazel Brannon,
174

Smith, William Stephens,
261

Snyder, Rick,
81

Social media.
See
Media, social

Social movements,
2
,
25–26
,
169–170
,
185
,
269

Sopoci-Belknap, Kaitlin,
264–265

Sotomayor, Sonia,
88
,
91

South Carolina primary, 2000,
125

Spamming,
250–252

Spero, Robert,
105–106
,
118

        
The Duping of the American Voter
,
106

Spitzer, Eliot,
51

State Legislatures
magazine,
55

State-level campaign spending,
48–53

Steel, Emily,
245

Stein, Jill,
204
,
205

Stevens, John Paul,
87–88

Stevenson, Adlai,
25
,
102
,
147
,
240

Stockholders, corporate,
92

Stokols, Eli,
158

Stoller, Matt,
79

Stone, I. F.,
174
,
189

Sullivan, Bob,
235

Sunlight Foundation,
62
,
151
,
157
,
228

Super-PACs.
See
Political Action Committees (PACs)

Supreme Court, United States,
17
,
20
,
48

        
activism of,
91

        
and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare),
93

        
appointment process,
69–70

        
Buckley v. Valeo
,
67
,
70
,
82

        
Bush v. Gore,
279

        
Citizens United v. FEC
,
2–3
,
6
,
8
,
35
,
38
,
43
,
49
,
68
,
71
,
87–90
,
150–151
,
227–228
,
231
,
263
,
264–265
,
270

        
First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
,
70–71
,
82–84
,
84–85
,
86

        
Knox v. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000
,
90–91
,
93–94

        
and labor unions,
90–92
,
92–93

        
Nixon's nominations to,
73

        
Roberts, John, influence of,
86–87
(
see also
Roberts, John
)

Supreme Courts, state, judicial races,
57–58

Sydnor Jr., Eugene,
73

Swift Boat attack ads,
48
,
122
,
126
,
156

Taft, William Howard,
172

Taibbi, Matt,
131

Tarbell, Ida,
20

Tea Party,
15
,
38
,
78
,
215
,
217
,
262
,
269

Technology Consumer Protection Act,
251

Tester, Jon,
46
,
94–95

Third-party advertising,
135
,
154
,
156–157
,
227–228

        
fact-checking,
151–153
,
158
,
266–267

        
Internet,
233–234

“This Is What Democracy Looks Like” (slogan),
11

Thomas, Clarence,
90

Thomas, Norman,
133

Thompson, Tommy,
201

Tillman Act,
21–22

Tillman, Ben,
21

Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again
(Trump),
36

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
166

Toledo, Ohio Jeep plant,
123–124

Treadway, Alex,
233

Trilateral Commission,
The Crisis of Democracy
,
29

Truman, Harry,
15
,
24
,
25
,
31
,
102

Trumka, Richard,
92

Trump, Donald,
36
,
37
,
38
,
40
,
65
,
184

        
The Art of the Deal
,
38

        
Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again
(Trump),
36

Turow, Joseph,
246
,
247
,
248
,
252
,
253

Twitter,
223
,
225
,
227
,
229
,
235–236

Two-party political system,
14–15
,
145
,
169–170
,
185
,
203–205

        
as advertising duopoly,
109
,
110
,
112–113

Uncheckable claim, the,
110

Unions, labor,
26
,
31
,
48
,
60–61
,
81
,
90–94
,
248
,
268–269

        
and the Supreme Court,
82
,
90–92
,
92–93
,
93–94

United Republic,
269

University of Maryland,
214–215

University of Minnesota Law School,
247

University of Pennsylvania,
246
,
248

University of Virginia,
198

Uygur, Cenk,
185
,
216

Vanderbilt, Cornelius,
19

Vanderbilt, William,
19

Vogel, David,
29
,
79

Vote, popular, rejected,
18

Voter apathy.
See
Apathy, voter

Voter harassment,
69

Voter turnout,
12–13
,
13
,
14
,
16
,
33
,
109
,
128
,
169

Voting rights,
2
,
18
,
25
,
29
,
258–259
,
278–283

Wagner, Dan,
237

Waldman, Michael,
73

Walker, Scott,
48–49
,
81
,
193
,
248

Wall Street meltdown,
191

Wall Street Journal
,
25
,
61–62
,
224
,
238

Wallace, George Corley,
249

Wal-Mart,
16
,
9

Walsh, Jim,
244

Walters, Bill,
55

War on Poverty,
25–26

Washington and Lee University,
77

Washington Post
,
51
,
86
,
130
,
135
,
153
,
186

        
fact checker website,
124

Wasserman, Edward,
157

Watergate scandal,
28
,
99
,
104

Weightman, Roger C.,
283

Weissman, Robert,
265

Weissman, Stephen,
89

Weisberger, Bernard,
132
,
159
,
206

Wertheimer, Fred,
153

West, Allen,
38

West, Darrell M.,
116
,
157

West Wing, The
(TV program),
99

Westen, Drew,
120–121

Wesleyan Media Project,
119
,
134

Wheeler, Burton K.,
22
,
24
,
93
,
94

White, Byron,
67

White, Theodore,
The Making of the President
(book series),
102
,
181

Whitman, Walt,
vi
,
xiii
,
131
,
167
,
256
,
278
,
284