Buying the Election

Liberal Super PACs spend $200M to secure Democratic victories
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Liberal Super PACs spent roughly $200 million during the 2012 election cycle on behalf of Democratic President Barack Obama’s reelection effort.

Ten Donors Financing Obama’s Super PAC Smears

Meet the Hollywood moguls and actors, outsourcing pioneers, heiress gardener, and others responsible for outrageous Obama Super PAC ad linking Mitt Romney to woman’s death from cancer
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An ad released Monday by the Obama-affiliated super PAC Priorities USA suggested that Republican challenger Mitt Romney may have played a part in the death of a cancer-stricken women—a smear that has opened the super PAC to condemnation from all sides.