READ THESE EXAMPLES AND THEN SAY THAT THE FILTHY MONEY HAS NOT BADLY INJURED OUR COUNTRY! The 2014 election season acquired its fair share of nicknames: the Nothing Election, the Seinfeld Election, and the Meh Midterms. Heres another: the Year of Koch. Big money from outside spenders like the Koch brothers political network and the pro-Democratic Senate Majority PAC dominated this years elections. In the battleground states, a voter couldnt watch five minutes of television, listen to the radio, or cue up a YouTube clip without being bombarded by political ads, most of them of the minor-chord, attack-ad variety. Broadcasters in Alaska, North Carolina, Colorado, and other critical states collected money by the fistful. Major candidates galore had a deep-pocketed super-PAC or a political nonprofit in his or her corner. Here are seven big-money takeaways from the second election since the Supreme Courts landscape-changing Citizens United decision.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:59:23 +0000
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