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Cin · 01-14-2012, 09:49 AM

Thanks to the Supreme Court and their decision for Citizen United this is what the landscape of the 2012 elections look like. We can all individually decide what that might mean for the US.

Gaze Into the Exploding Universe of Dark Money
We've charted the red giants and blue dwarfs spending millions to influence the 2012 election.

If Citizens United was the Big Bang of a new era of money in politics, here's the parallel universe it formed: rapidly expanding super-PACs and nebulous 501(c) groups exerting their gravitational pull on federal elections. A group's size in the chart below is based upon all known fundraising or spending since 2010…so keep an eye out for dark matter.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011...c-groups-chart

01-14-2012, 09:49 AM	#126
Cin Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Butch Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: Truly Madly Deeply Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: In My Head Posts: 2,815 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,333 Thanked 10,406 Times in 2,477 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Thanks to the Supreme Court and their decision for Citizen United this is what the landscape of the 2012 elections look like. We can all individually decide what that might mean for the US. Gaze Into the Exploding Universe of Dark Money *We've charted the red giants and blue dwarfs spending millions to influence the 2012 election.* If Citizens United was the Big Bang of a new era of money in politics, here's the parallel universe it formed: rapidly expanding super-PACs and nebulous 501(c) groups exerting their gravitational pull on federal elections. A group's size in the chart below is based upon all known fundraising or spending since 2010…so keep an eye out for dark matter. http://motherjones.com/politics/2011...c-groups-chart __________________ The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinions. They use their opinions to form their “facts.” Neil Strauss