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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 03:29 AM Jan 2016

TYT: Billionaires Puzzled Super-PACs Underperforming



Republican billionaires are used to being able to buy elections, and are now crying about how Super-PAC’s aren’t all-powerful. Donald Trump’s “earned media” is throwing a wrench into their plans. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"The landmark 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC was seen favorably by the GOP’s base when it happened, but as the race for the Republican presidential nomination heats up, the superPAC donors who once benefited from the potentially unlimited amounts of cash raised by independent groups have become skeptical.

According to The Hill, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is running a relatively cheap campaign, leaving those who donated millions to campaigns for Jeb Bush,John Kasich, Scott Walker, and Rick Perryconfused and angry.

Certainly, this election cycle has changed the way voters and politicians look at campaign donations and spending. Trump is mostly funding his own campaign, and has disavowed nine superPACs while calling on his Republican challengers to do the same. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders is refusing corporate funding, and has only accepted donations from private individuals. Sanders broke records last month when it was reported that he has received contributions from two million individual donors. The majority of Sanders’s contributions have been under $30.”*

Read more here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-donors-starting-to-worry-they-are-wasting-money/
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TYT: Billionaires Puzzled Super-PACs Underperforming (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2016 OP
Simple, they need to double down and safeinOhio Jan 2016 #1
Michael Moore was right about "Stupid White Men". Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2016 #3
If the billionaire class sulphurdunn Jan 2016 #2
For some pacs Marty McGraw Jan 2016 #4

safeinOhio

(32,527 posts)
1. Simple, they need to double down and
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 03:52 AM
Jan 2016

and give way more money. Just like the reason they give for their trickle down theory not working, only because we haven't given enough tax breaks to the rich or screwed the poor enough.

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
2. If the billionaire class
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 12:36 PM
Jan 2016

has discovered there's something they can't by, I'm sure they are working to fix it.

Marty McGraw

(1,024 posts)
4. For some pacs
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 01:26 PM
Jan 2016

It's not like Losing Money than rather Laundering it back to themselves, esp. if they have income based interest in the media conglomerate that money filters it's way back into.

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