The exhibition also features voting machines dating back to the late 19th century and displays current contemporary candidate lawn signs by candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, as well as older signs, to show the evolution of campaign messaging.
Still, the decline also could be simply part of the natural evolution of campaign finance as rules and donor interests change, said Brendan Glavin at the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonpartisan research and advocacy group.
State judges and leaders of the organized bar have expressed alarm at the recent evolution of judicial campaigns, which both in cost and rhetoric have come to mirror campaigns for other offices.
This is the natural evolution of our campaign as we become more and more of a nationwide campaign with increased staff and increased responsibilities".
I wasn't aware that this was advertising week (I thought every week was advertising week) until I received an invitation from Mark McKinnon to attend a panel discussion on "the evolution of presidential campaign advertising".
Rajiv Desai, who runs a public affairs consultancy in New Delhi and occasionally writes on politics and the evolution of political campaigning in India, thinks the celebrity candidate is a sign of political maturity.
In many ways, the situation is a natural evolution of the campaign promises made by Mr. Obama in 2008, when he vowed to turn away from the Bush administration's more unilateral approach.
The pitches, more focused on growing the number of donors than on raising money, mark a new step in the evolution of presidential campaign fundraising away from high-dollar donations from the wealthy and toward online fundraising from the party's grass roots.
