Daily Media Links 3/26: Campaign power in wrong hands, Lobbyists, Guns and Money, and more…

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March 26, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

Independent groups The Hill: Campaign power in wrong hands  by Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) Our elections should be a marketplace of ideas. Instead, they increasingly ...

Daily Media Links 3/23: Super PACs Turn Two Years Old Did Super PACs Harm the 2012 Primaries?, and more…

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March 23, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

Independent groups Institute for Justice: Super PACs Turn Two Years Old  SpeechNow.org and its members, represented by IJ and the Center for Competitive Politics, challenged ...

Daily Media Links 3/22: Nonprofits Dive Into PAC World, Romney’s super PAC still outraising his rivals’ , and more…

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March 22, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

Independent groups Roll Call: Nonprofits Dive Into PAC World   by Eliza Newlin Carney As politically active tax-exempt groups draw scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators, ...

Daily Media Links 3/21: ‘Super PACs’ Supply Millions as G.O.P. Race Drains Field, A new era in campaign finance, and more…

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March 21, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

Independent groups NY Times: ‘Super PACs’ Supply Millions as G.O.P. Race Drains Field By Nicholas Confessore The Republican presidential candidates are running low on campaign ...

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March 20, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

Independent groups Roll Call: Rules of the Game: Bad News for Nation’s Nonprofits   by Eliza Newlin Carney In an election that until lately ...

Daily Media Links 3/19: The Wrong Way to Shake Up Congress, Big donors are fueling democracy, and more…

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March 19, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

In the News Federalist Society (Event): Campaign Finance & Super PACs in the 2012 election  The Federalist Society presents Professor Allison Hayward, Vice President of ...

Daily Media Links 3/16: Senate Republicans Warn IRS Against Scrutiny of Tea Party, nions Urge Curtailment of ‘Super PACs’, and more…

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March 16, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

Independent groups Bloomberg Businessweek: Senate Republicans Warn IRS Against Scrutiny of Tea Party  by Jonathan D. Salant Senate Republicans today expressed concern that the Internal ...

Daily Media Links 3/15: Donations to GOP presidential campaigns down despite talk of big political spending, Since Citizens United, Outside Political Spending in Presidential Elections Has Doubled, and more…

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March 15, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

In the News Fox News: Donations to GOP presidential campaigns down despite talk of big political spending    by Shannon Bream Many, including David Keating, ...

Daily Media Links 3/14: GOP campaign spending lowest since 1990s, Learning to Love the Super PAC, and more…

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March 14, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

In the News Bangor Daily News: GOP campaign spending lowest since 1990s  But Bradley A. Smith, a former FEC chairman who heads the Center for ...

Daily Media Links 3/9: Corporations don’t pony up for super PACs, the IRS does its job, and more…

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March 9, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

Independent groups Politico: Corporations don’t pony up for super PACs  When super PACs emerged two years ago,  critics howled that corporations would take advantage of ...

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