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Poll: 69% of Americans want to outlaw super PACs
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Scarne
Title: Capo di Scientifico
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Poll: 69% of Americans want to outlaw super PACs
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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/03/super-pacs-illegal-abc-poll-/1
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The strong feelings toward these groups are bipartisan, the poll shows. Seventy percent of Democrats and 55% of Republicans want to outlaw super PACs, as do nearly eight in 10 independents.
Mississippi and Alabama voters, who go to the polls today, have been watching ads defining the GOP presidential candidates that have been financed almost totally by super PACs.
Bloomberg News reports 91% of the 5,592 campaign ads that aired on TV in these two Southern states in the past month have been paid for by super PACs, according to data from Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group.
Too bad that Super PACs are protected free speech!  
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Moe_Nox
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Lying is protected free speech as well, thankfully for Obama. Or... is it?? 
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silvadel
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Registered: 2001-4-18 11:54:17
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When will we learn that interfering in things like this is far worse than just leaving it alone.
Just allow people to donate whatever they want to whatever politician they want -- just have it be out in the open who is donating what.
Things like super-pacs just increase the number of non-vetted negative ads and make the campaigns all over the place.
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Cawlin
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silvadel posted:
When will we learn that interfering in things like this is far worse than just leaving it alone.
Just allow people to donate whatever they want to whatever politician they want -- just have it be out in the open who is donating what.
Things like super-pacs just increase the number of non-vetted negative ads and make the campaigns all over the place.
You have a few good points here. I like the one I bolded very much.
Honestly though I really think that there needs to be a mandate about media coverage and expense with respect to popular media (TV, newsprint, etc.)
I would definitely favor legislation, which on the surface of it seems incredibly invasive, but also feels incredibly necessary to me, that forced equal and ACCURATE representation by the media of political candidates. Let all the grass roots and smear ads on billboards stay just that - grass roots crap and no longer the bailiwick of corporate megalomaniacs scratching each others' backs.
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Thugoneous
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Registered: 2002-11-2 18:00:54
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I would consider NBC and HBO a SuperPac
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Date Posted:
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i would consider most outposters SuperFat
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Scarne
Title: Capo di Scientifico
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Registered: 2001-7-23 15:24:34
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Thugoneous posted:
I would consider NBC and HBO a SuperPac
You would be wrong then.
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Yukishiro1
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Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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At least SuperFat outposters can't lose their wedding rings. Besides in their own fat, that is.
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Date Posted:
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not totally sure who you're mocking with that. fat people or my wife. i'll assume both.
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Brother_Tempus
Title: Patriot
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Registered: 2001-1-9 08:07:00
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Date Posted:
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thankfully that 69% can stuff it, we are a constitutional republic, not a crappy democracy
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