The Referee Of Political Campaigns – Sean Cooksey (FEC)

"My view is the best referees are there to enforce the rules. So the game is played fairly, but is also trying to not interfere with the flow of the game."

"Try explaining that to your aunt when she reads you quoted about it in the New York Times."

"Generally digital campaigning gives populist messaging and populist methods a slight edge."

"It matters more who you work for and who you work with than where you work or what your title is."

"You need to make sure those messages from you to your audience are actually from you."

"It is a strategic move to allow unknown people running for office for the first time to have a track record."

"That's one of the beauties of stacked content is if you employ it, then you are right there on a knife edge, always ready to go and you can seize that moment."

"The next major focus is how do we direct more of these hard dollars to these candidates and campaigns?"

"Oftentimes our canvassers are as close to a candidate as any voter will ever get."