Posts Tagged ‘campaign finance’

Supreme court ruling on campaign finance

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Matthew Yglesias points out at that the Citizens United decision may have some pretty painful consequences to our politics:

Bank of America, for example, dedicates $2.3 billion to marketing in 2008 so it’s clear that they’ve got the budget to mount a $100 million series of scathing attacks on a Senator who pisses them off and basically laugh that off (and note that in 2004 total spending on Senate campaigns was just $400 million).