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.

Democracy Alliance Pumps Up Obama Super PAC

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Members of the secretive, liberal network of dark money donors known as the Democracy Alliance gave Obama’s Super PAC, Priorities USA, a major cash injection in the first half of October. According to the group’s pre-general FEC report, George Soros contributed $1 million, Chris Findlater gave $30,000, and Vin Ryan donated $100,000.

A Brief History of Obama

Column: How sarcasm and insult took over the Democratic Party
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When historians look back at the presidency of Barack Obama, they will not begin with his campaign announcement in May 2007. They will not start with his election to the Senate in 2004 or with his celebrated speech to the Democratic National Convention that year. Instead, these historians will identify the beginning of the Obama phenomenon in the antiwar speech he delivered in Chicago, on Oct. 2, 2002.

Obama’s Beach Bundler Gives to Super PAC

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Obama’s beach bundler, Marjorie Rawls Roberts, has donated to the Obama-affiliated Super PAC, Priorities USA, according to the pre-general filing with the FEC. Roberts has contributed at least $250 to the group that has suggested Mitt Romney was responsible for a woman’s death from cancer.

Breaking His Own Law

Obama fails to release mandated stimulus reports
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The President’s administration is not providing the legally mandated reports on the stimulus money, The Weekly Standard has reported.

All the Small Things

Big Bird, binders, and Seamus key tenets of Democratic plans for the future
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With more than 20 million American unemployed or underemployed, and an economy growing at an abysmal 1.3 percent, Obama and the Democratic Party have sought to highlight the following critical issues.