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How some Super PACs disenfranchise voters

Approximately 13 years ago, in January 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to reverse a campaign law that dated back more than a hundred years, set in place to thwart political corruption.What could possibly go wrong?As a result of the upper-court’s slim majority vote, corporations were suddenly free to spend unlimited funds on campaign advertising, attack ads, as long as they were not formally directly working with a candidate or political party. Liquor, lap dances, free gambling money, and free escorts. Let the crooked games begin, said the major and minor political players as they huddled in dark corners,

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