Liberal Groups Seek Public Financing Of Elections

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Liberal Groups Seek Public Financing Of Elections

by Peter Overby

March 23, 2010

Democrats and liberal advocacy groups are pushing back against a January Supreme Court decision that said corporations and unions can spend unlimited amounts in electoral politics, but some want to push further than others.

Democrats see an opportunity here, but they are just not sure what to do with it.

The White House has criticized the court ruling. President Obama lit into it in his State of the Union address. When Chief Justice John Roberts called the criticism "troubling," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs hit the same populist point again.

"The president fundamentally disagrees with that decision — as, I would say, do the vast majority of the American people," Gibbs said.

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