Thread: The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)
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Old 01-22-2010, 10:37 AM   #1
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Originally Posted by Alex View Post
No, that's not right. Corporations are still limited like everybody else on direct contributions to candidates.

This just means they can spend as much of their corporate money as they want on their own political advocacy during certain periods before an election. You and I could already do that, if I had a billion dollars no law would prevent me from running my own commercials saying "Vote for Bob" so long as they were produced independently of Bob.
The effect is the same. How many average Americans would it take to be able to outspend the likes of Exxon/Mobil?
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