Election 2010 to Shatter Spending Records as Republicans Benefit from Late Cash Surge

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Election 2010 to Shatter Spending Records as Republicans Benefit from Late Cash Surge

Center for Responsive Politics predicts midterms could cost nearly $4 billion

Contact: Dave Levinthal (202-354-0111)

WASHINGTON – This year’s federal election will obliterate spending records for a midterm contest, surpassing the previous high-water mark set in 2006 by about $1 billion, the Center for Responsive Politics predicts less than a week before voters cast their ballots.

That’s enough cash to run the city of Pittsburgh for two years. Buy every resident of Topeka a nice used car. Or treat each and every American to a Big Mac and fries.

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/10/election-2010-to-shatter-spending-r.html


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“We knew this election could make spending history, but the rate of growth is stunning,”

Think we need some Affirmative Action applied to "free speech" re elections - i.e.,

for every corporate dollar, a dollar to be donated to citizens so they can have equal free speech!!

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1. Holy sh*t! This is as bad as I could have imagined. We've crossed over into bizarro world

The ads are so outlandish. I'm wondering if this could potentially backfire (assuming we'd ever replace a current conservative justice (through retirement) with a normal one). Outside of that, or the even less likely possibility of Scalia or Thomas being impeached for their startling conflicts of interest, we're in for a long, scary ride ahead. I have a feeling we haven't seen anywhere near the depth candidates and their corporate supported ads will go.

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2. It's the system, silly...

"Identifiably conservative organizations are spending more than $2 on advertisements and other communications for every $1 liberal organizations do. While corporations are behind much of this money, many of these companies have skirted public scrutiny by laundering their cash through intermediary organizations, which often sport nondescript names and don’t immediately, if ever, reveal who funds them."

Here's what ya got...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9411445