Wiseacre
Retired USAF Chief
- Apr 8, 2011
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Take few minutes and peruse the various groups spending money on super PACs.
2012 Outside Spending, by Groups | OpenSecrets
You might notice that unions are a small part of total spending here, they are hardly even in the running.
The total spending shows 18.6 million spent against repubs, to 16.7 for. What's your point again? Dude, unions got no reason to spend much money now, you know that. Why don't you check the numbers after the election is over, then bitch about CvU. I'm thinking you guys will have spent more money than the repubs will, even with their unlimited contributions.
That didn't make sense either until I checked and found that the bulk of the money spent against republicans was spent by republicans in the primary, click the button that says "by group viewpoint" for a more accurate picture, it has money spent by conservatives at $31.2 million and by liberals at $2.8.
Liberals have no reason to spend money now, they don't have a repub candidate to smear and vilify yet. No reason for them to run negative ads yet when the repubs are doing it for them. As I said, I'm thinking before it's over the liberals will match up pretty good in the spending dept with the GOP.
Seriously, the flap over Citizens United is way overblown. The money spent in 2010 was fairly even, I don't think the big corps are going to out spend the unions. But I'm getting tired of the debate, I'm hitting the hay. Sleep well you left wing loons, LOL.