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Kablooie

(18,632 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 11:10 PM Feb 2012

Who benefits from the huge amounts of political cash?

Private individuals and industries are pumping obscene amounts of money into the election campaigns this year.
So they divest themselves of all this cash but it must go somewhere.

Who are the beneficiaries of this newly released wealth?
Is it just the TV and radio stations that receive all this cash from the gods or are there others that will make a substantial financial killing?

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Who benefits from the huge amounts of political cash? (Original Post) Kablooie Feb 2012 OP
lessee, consultants, lobbyists, pollsters, convention centers, hotels, restaurants, airlines, unblock Feb 2012 #1
Could It Be That Citizens United Is A Jobs Program In Disguise?......nt global1 Feb 2012 #3
media outlets ldf Feb 2012 #2

unblock

(52,208 posts)
1. lessee, consultants, lobbyists, pollsters, convention centers, hotels, restaurants, airlines,
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 11:15 PM
Feb 2012

and printers and publishers.


of course, the extra money bids the price of all of these things up, so they all cost more for the rest of us.
not a huge effect by any stretch, but still....

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