Today parties remain significant players in the campaign finance arena, even if they have been somewhat diminished in the wake of BCRA’s closing of the soft money loophole and the emergence of super PACs resulting from the Court’s deregulatory impulses. Some scholars have pointed to the contemporary confluence of party strength and weakness – in which the major parties, enfeebled by many of the developments in the campaign finance realm, are at the same time emboldened by way heightened polarization has sharpened the power of party identity.1 And powerful campaign finance tools do remain in the party toolbox. Joint fundraising committees, for example, allow parties to coordinate campaign finance activities for a multitude of candidates, allowing donors to write a single check that is distributed in accordance with contributions limits.2