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Blair Bowie: How Super PACs Are Auctioning Our Democracy to the Highest Bidder, and How We Can Fight Back
In a new report, called Auctioning Democracy: The Rise of Super PACs and the 2012 Elections, we take a comprehensive look at Super PAC fundraising -- from their advent in the wake of 2010's Citizens United Supreme Court decision through 2011 Federal Election Commission year-end filings.
Read Auctioning Democracy: The Rise of Super PACs and the 2012 Elections
Our findings confirm that Super PACs represent much of what is wrong with American democracy rolled neatly into one package: they provide a convenient avenue for for-profit businesses and wealthy donors to dominate the political process with a flood of sometimes secret cash.
