07-28-2016, 07:48 PM
(07-28-2016, 05:25 PM)Millhouse Wrote: What you referred to earlier is basically pacs & superpacs. The issue with superpacs is they can take any amount of money and use it for or against a candidate, as long as they are not directly involved with the campaign itself. And the issue of that is this where big money from corporate murica, oil, alcohol, tobacco, guns, unions, billionaires, millionaires, to whatever can have unlimited amount of influence on an election.
Plenty of candidates have pacs & superpacs, but I agree not everyone can get that kind of support.
But IMO the main reason Dems oppose Citizens United is because without it, there's really nothing to counter the unions, which vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Democrat opposition to CU is more about tilting the game their way than making the game more fair.
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