In a Sunday Boston Globe piece by Michael Kranish detailing Super PAC domination of the current election cycle (pro-Mitt Romney Restore Our Future alone has raised $57 million to kneecap primary opponents and Pres. Obama), there was this helpful graphic.
There was also this:
Romney . . . has cast himself as a reformer. He has proposed that campaigns be allowed to receive unlimited donations. That would lead to the withering away of super PACs, which he said have been a “disaster.’’
“Campaign finance law has made a mockery of our political campaign season,’’ Romney said. “We really ought to let campaigns raise the money they need and just get rid of these super PACs.’’
He says potato . . .