Public Campaign President and CEO Nick Nyhart joined with David Donnelly, national campaigns director for Public Campaign Action Fund, in writing the following the piece that will appear in the April 25th edition of The Nation magazine. The full article is available on their website (if you're a subscriber), or you can read it below.

The Founding Fathers invaded Ohio's 8th Congressional district on Sunday and Monday to search for Rep. John Boehner. See our full report.

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.

The results aren't surprising - voters are disillusioned by Washington and think that special interests have too much influence on the policy making process.

Here are some key points:

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.

Nick lists a few of the allegations--selling a Senate seat for campaign cash, awarding contracts based on campaign cash, holding funds for sick kids for campaign cash. Gee, there seems to be a pattern.

On November 4th, Maine voters elected 158 Clean Elections candidates to serve in the next session of the General Assembly. That's 85 percent of lawmakers free from the influence of special interest campaign contributions.

Yesterday in Maine, Public Campaign Action Fund member Dorothy Many 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.

In Congress, more than 118 members are on the record in support of public financing. President-Elect Barack Obama has supported the issue for years, all the way back to his days in the Illinois senate.

This morning, the Star Ledger in New Jersey editorialized about the presidential public financing system, saying it’s a ”struggling initiative” and is “buried and left for dead.” While the 1974-version of public financing might be dead, there’s increasing support at the state and federal level to fix the presidential system and enact Clean Elections-style full public financing.

Following former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) and former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-AK) and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL have responded to our question about Fair Elections.

Both Gravel and Kucinich have endorsed Fair Elections, or full public financing of elections.

Here is Gravel's response:

Support for full public financing of elections graced a few editorial pages over the weekend with the Des Moines Register and the Syracuse Post-Standard both running letters to the editor in support of state and federal level Clean Elections-style proposals. Thanks to Susan West and G.T. Gerrard, respectively, for submitting those letters!

Front page on the Huffington Post right now is this piece by Public Campaign's Nancy Watzman about the video question on Fair and Clean Elections which we posted to 10Questions and which is steadily climbing the list.