While most of Washington is still digging out of this weekend's blizzard, Public Campaign Action Fund joined with Common Cause and Change Congress to release new polling today on the impact of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and the Fair Elections Now Act.

Newsweek has an article online discussing the recent exposure of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) as a major recipient of health care and insurance industry campaign contributions, and how it is impacting the ongoing debate in Congress.

By the time January 2008 rolled around, presidential candidates were already breaking campaign finance records. And by November 4th, they had shattered even more. With so many candidates, so much money, and so much riding on the outcome, campaign contributions were major headlines this year. Below is my list of the top five money and politics stories for 2008 (in no particular order).

This Blagojevich scandal is a big deal. This isn't just a story about personal corruption, but a story about political corruption and campaign finance. Nick Nyhart, president and CEO at Public Campaign has a new post up at Huffington Post about the scandal.

Yesterday in Maine, Public Campaign Action Fund member Dorothy Maine asked in a letter to the editor whether Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins will show leadership in pushing the Maine Clean Elections model for Congressional races.

So we now have more support for Fair Elections, or full public financing of elections, in Washington, D.C. than ever before. We need your help to make passing Fair Elections a priority.