🏆 Applause for @gfoysutherland.bsky.social! His paper “Adapting to Asymmetry: Campaign Strategy and Message Control in an Era of Super PACs” wins the 2025 Best APSA Paper Award. 🔥 Innovative and timely work! Come and celebrate with him at the business meeting (Sept 12, Friday, @12pm) #APSA25

Important data on the prevalence of super PACs spending "independently" by publishing the campaign's footage. We need stronger coordination rules in the federal system, like those New York City is implementing this year to stop campaigns from redboxing (posting b-roll for outside groups to use).

This all happens because the FEC’s coordination ban doesn’t extend to communications that happen in public. Campaigns and outside groups stretch the word “public,” of course.

In a political era of Super PACs, congressional candidates seek to maintain control over their visual image through visual "b-roll", effectively subsidizing outside organizations, finds ‪@gfoysutherland.bsky.social‬ doi.org/10.1177/1532...

I’m so glad @gfoysutherland.bsky.social is writing about b-roll and red boxes. My favorite moment of b-roll breaking through to the public was when Daily Show did a segment remixing Ted Cruz’s b-roll. youtu.be/EJaldOWDVxo?... +

Congratulations to Gabriel Foy-Sutherland (University of Chicago) and Saurav Ghosh (Campaign Legal Center), the recipients of the Best Paper Award for their paper titled “Cordination in Plain Sight: The Breadth and Uses of ‘Redboxing’ in Congressional Elections” at #SPSA2025!