Outside Groups Dominate Campaign Ad Spending In 2010 (CHARTS)

[kpete]

TPMDC
Outside Groups Dominate Campaign Ad Spending In 2010 (CHARTS)

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The sea change is largely the result of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, overturning a ban preventing pressure groups and corporations from running so-called independent expenditure ads for or against a candidate (these are distinct from issue ads, which only mention candidates vis-a-vis their policy positions). As a result of that shift, the official party committees and candidates face direct contribution limits and must disclose their funders. PACs have a bit more leeway -- they still face disclosure rules, but no donation limits. Groups organized as non-profits, though, are unencumbered: they can take in as much money as they want, without having to disclose any of their donors.

The result has been extraordinary.


more:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/outside-groups-dominate-campaign-ad-spending-in-2010.php?ref=fpb

[Tippy]

1. K&R

[daleanime]

2. I see no danger to our nation....

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Historic NY]

3. Trick or Treats..........were not allowed to know.

[jillan]

4. That is disgusting!

[ProSense]

5. Good for TPM for focusing on this. n/t

[FBaggins]

6. Is there data available for 2008? n/t

[ProSense]

7. The problem is more disclosure than it is the

outside groups, as this NYT editorial explains

The Sunlight Foundation considers MoveOn an outside group, but MoveOn is a 527, which is required to disclose its donors.

[FBaggins]

8. I agree. But once again... is there a way to compare this to 2008?

I think that's when outside funding options were starting to ramp up. If undisclosed donors are the problem, then that should be reflected in the data. 2006 was (IIRC) before much of this ramped up (disclosed or otherwise).

I'm trying to find out how much of this is new (related to citizens united) and how much of it is just "they're doing a better job of it than we are this year).