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Citizens United ruling accounts for 78 percent of 2012 election spending
Almost $465m of outside money has been spent on the US presidential election campaign so far, including $365m that can be attributed to the supreme court’s landmark Citizens United ruling, according to a report released on Monday. Super Pacs, which came into effect following the 2010 Citizens United verdict, accounted…
CNN contributor: Federal watchdogs for Super PACs are toothless
CNN contributor John Avlon said Wednesday that the Federal Elections Commission, which oversees election spending in the United States, had essentially become useless thanks to partisan politics. “There is this gold rush going on in the Super PAC economy but it really is like the wild west, people are pushing…
DNC chair on super PACs: We ‘play by the rules that exist right now’
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee appeared on CNN’s Starting Point Thursday morning to defend President Obama’s decision to accept super PAC money as part of his reelection campaign. Critics have accused the president of “flip-flopping” on the issue in that he has spoken out against the Supreme…
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