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Billionaires top list of donors to super PACs
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Find out who tops the list of top contributors to so-called super PACs through the end of March.
GOP-friendly super PACs can now focus money on Obama
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Rick Santorum's exit from the GOP primary race means the super PAC money that kept his presidential bid alive will now likely be spent on anti-Obama attack ads.
Bankers jump on Super PAC bandwagon
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Friends of Traditional Banking wants to target a few close Congressional elections rather than spreading their money around to a lot of politicians hoping they'll vote in their interests.
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Campaign fundraising, pre- and post-primaries
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
How history has led to how recent electoral caucuses are run, and the waning influence of the super PACs in the coming general elections.
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VIDEO: Super PAC Mad Libs
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Political cartoonist Mark Fiore lampoons the rise of the Super PAC in this short video animation
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Super PACs = Long primaries + big $ for local media
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
The extended, expensive GOP primary race could help state primaries that never mattered before, in big media markets like California and New York.
Super PAC money no help building campaign organizations
Monday, March 5, 2012
Super PACs are not allowed to spend the millions they take in on campaign organizations. Some cash-rich Super Tuesday candidates were so organization poor they couldn't collect enough signatures to get on ballots in all ten states.
Super PAC money keeps candidates afloat longer
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Unlimited political campaign donations from super PACs are keeping struggling GOP candidates like Newt Gingrich in this year's presidential primaries longer than they might have survived in past elections.
Super PAC spending in Michigan and beyond
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Republican presidential candidates are spending millions on the state's airwaves. But those ads are more and more often not being paid for by official campaigns but by giant political action committees -- super PACs.
Where do campaign donations go?
Monday, February 20, 2012
Wealthy donors who contribute to political campaigns get lots of media attention -- but not nearly as much attention is paid to how that money gets spent.
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