'Super PACs Are Kryptonite for US Democracy'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/08-4
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The Rise of Super PACs and the 2012 Election
Super PACs represent much of what is wrong with American democracy rolled neatly into one package. They are tools that powerful special interests and a tiny privileged minority can use to work their will by drowning out the voices of ordinary Americans in a sea of (sometimes secret) cash.
http://bit.ly/znRROR
From Information Clearing House
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The .0000063 Percent Election: How the Politics of the Super Rich Became American Politics
Ari Berman, TomDispatch: ''Electoral politics and the 2012 presidential election have become almost exclusively defined by the 1%. Or, to be more precise, the .0000063%. Those are the 196 individual donors who have provided nearly 80% of the money raised by super PACs in 2011 by giving $100,000 or more each. If 2008 was the year of the small donor ... then 2012 is 'the year of the big donor,' when a candidate is only as good as the amount of money in his super PAC.''
http://www.truth-out.org/0000063-election-how-politics-super-rich-became-american-politics/1329418282
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=2012+election
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=PACs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=special+interests
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ari+Berman
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The Rise of Super PACs and the 2012 Election
Super PACs represent much of what is wrong with American democracy rolled neatly into one package. They are tools that powerful special interests and a tiny privileged minority can use to work their will by drowning out the voices of ordinary Americans in a sea of (sometimes secret) cash.
http://bit.ly/znRROR
From Information Clearing House
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The .0000063 Percent Election: How the Politics of the Super Rich Became American Politics
Ari Berman, TomDispatch: ''Electoral politics and the 2012 presidential election have become almost exclusively defined by the 1%. Or, to be more precise, the .0000063%. Those are the 196 individual donors who have provided nearly 80% of the money raised by super PACs in 2011 by giving $100,000 or more each. If 2008 was the year of the small donor ... then 2012 is 'the year of the big donor,' when a candidate is only as good as the amount of money in his super PAC.''
http://www.truth-out.org/0000063-election-how-politics-super-rich-became-american-politics/1329418282
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=2012+election
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=PACs
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealthy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=special+interests
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ari+Berman
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Starmail - 9. Feb, 06:13
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