Super Pacs

In Texas Primary, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson Faces Energetic Challenger

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.24.2012

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A 35-year-old graduate of Harvard Law School is challenging ten-term Dallas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D) in a Tuesday primary that could be her most...

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Donald Trump Ponders His Own Super PAC

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.24.2012

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Reality television star, real estate mogul and Republican celebrity du jour Donald Trump told the conservative news site NewsMax that he was consideri...

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Super PAC Contributions Slump As GOP Primary Fight Ends

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Contributions to super PACs fell in April from the month before as the Republican presidential primary race ended. The unlimited money p...

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Wealthy Super PACs Attract Small-Dollar Donors

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.23.2012

WASHINGTON -- In the age of super PACs, campaign entities that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money, gone are the days when a broad fundraising...

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QUIZ: Super PAC or Cannes Film?

Posted 05.22.2012

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Thanks in no small part to Stephen Colbert, the nation seems to have Super PAC fever. Each day we see new PACs being created with increasingly unu...

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Priorities USA Action, Pro-Obama Super PAC, Continues Lackluster Fundraising

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.21.2012

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The super PAC supporting the reelection campaign of President Barack Obama had another lackluster month of fundraising in April, pulling in only $1.58...

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What's Missing From Mitt Romney's Fundraising?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced on May 17 that it had raised $40.1 million in April, when i...

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Restore Our Future, Pro-Romney Super PAC, Raises $3.8 Million In April

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.21.2012

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The super PAC backing Mitt Romney's presidential run retained its place as the number one super PAC, in terms of financing, as it pulled in an additio...

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Congressman's Experiment Aims To Reverse Role Of Big Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In the age of super PACs and K Street fundraisers, the hunt for grassroots donors, those giving small sums, has become less and less imp...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For May 18, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.18.2012

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What began in Indiana continued in Nebraska this week, as long-shot state Sen. Deb Fischer scored an underdog victory in Nebraska's GOP primary for th...

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WATCH: Romney Gets Negative In First General Election Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.18.2012

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When it comes time to score Mitt Romney's first general election ad, the independent arbitrators will rank it as a "negative" spot...

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Meet The Billionaire Behind The Jeremiah Wright Attack Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Perhaps it wasn't how he hoped to make a splash, but TD Ameritrade founder J. Joe Ricketts hit the political big time this week when The...

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More Indicators a Nasty, Say-Anything Republican Campaign Is Coming -- And See Updates

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.17.2012

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Republicans have a huge "noise machine" and they know how to use it. And they really, really don't care if they are telling the truth or not, they say what they need to say to win.

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Dear Pasty Republican Billionaires: Haven't You Got Anything Better to Do?

Graham Milne | Posted 05.17.2012

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These real-life Charles Foster Kanes have conquered the business world, crushed enemies in their wake and accumulated wealth to rival that of the pharaohs. But love remains elusive for them, no matter how many zeroes in their Cayman Islands offshore holding account.

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Why Super PACs Aren't the Problem

Todd Phillips | Posted 05.16.2012

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We can cast votes in elections and the winner will run the government, but if citizens are uninformed, what's the point? Democracy will be phony. And if democracy is phony, it seems inevitable that our government and our society will be overflowing with problems. Is there another way?

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Big Donors Have Shunned Pro-Obama Super PAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The push to raise unlimited contributions by a super PAC backing President Barack Obama's reelection has run into a number of hurdles si...

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Lines Blur Between Campaigns & Independent Groups

AP | BETH FOUHY and KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.15.2012

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NEW YORK -- Looks like President Barack Obama's allies got the hint. An independent group with deep ties to the president's re-election campaign laun...

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GOP-Backed Group Hopes To Take Key Voters From Obama

AP | JACK GILLUM | Posted 05.14.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama counted on the support of younger voters four years ago. Now, a new Republican-leaning "super" political com...

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Super PACs Make Major Shift

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.10.2012

WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday night Indiana conservative upstart Richard Mourdock defeated 36-year incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar in a primary battle that featu...

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CEOs Get Served by Shareholders Sick of Political Spending

Lisa Gilbert | Posted 05.08.2012

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Companies should get out of the political spending game and focus on doing what they were created to do: make a profit for their shareholders.

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Soros Abandons Sidelines To Combat Citizens United-Spawned Groups

AP | JACK GILLUM | Posted 05.08.2012

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WASHINGTON — Billionaire financier George Soros is pledging $2 million to political groups supporting progressive causes and President Barack Ob...

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U.S. Presidential Elections Should Have A French Accent

Scott Blakeman | Posted 05.07.2012

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While the individual contribution limit in France is more than twice as high as the U.S., there are no PACs or Super PACs, and French companies, unions and special interests are not allowed to make political contributions.

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Election Regulations and Voter Disengagement

Sundeep Iyer | Posted 05.03.2012

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Congress alone cannot completely counteract the harmful effects of the new rules governing our elections. But in an election cycle where these rules threaten to undermine voter participation, Congress must act now to soften the blow.

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When Politics Becomes the Game

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 05.03.2012

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Mann and Ornstein are no lightweight centrists; they are the Republicans of the Republicans. If they see fault in their party's lurch to the far right, then you know things have gotten out of hand.

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Drowning In Mud: 70 Percent Of Presidential Campaign Ads Negative

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The percentage of negative ads run during the 2012 election is up dramatically over the previous cycle, with candidates and interest gro...

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