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Tue Nov 6, 2012, 05:54 PM Nov 2012

Karl Rove-Backed Groups Are Largest Single Outside Force In 2012 Election

WASHINGTON -- The independent group American Crossroads, a super PAC, and Crossroads GPS, a social welfare non-profit, set a goal to raise and spend $300 million on the 2012 election. When all is said and done on Nov. 6, they will, in all likelihood, have reached or come incredibly close to that once unbelievable goal.

The two groups, founded by Republican political operative Karl Rove and others in 2010, have already spent $271 million, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission and press releases.

Crossroads spokesman Jonathan Collegio told The Huffington Post that the groups will succeed in their $300 million effort.

"The Crossroads groups will meet their goal of raising $300m for the 2011-12 cycle because there is a great desire to change the direction of the country and donors see Crossroads as an effective and efficient platform for effecting change," he wrote in an email.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/04/karl-rove-crossroads-2012-election_n_2072744.html

~~~I WANT THEM TO FAIL - THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT *NEED* THAT KIND OF "CHANGE"~~~
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