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Originally Posted by rubicon
...Who is to blame? There is enough blame to go around but the voters must collectively protest their dissatisfaction with the campaign process, its lengthy timeline,and most of all the reject negativity in ads and demand factual accounting of the concerns and issues of voters to filter out the lies....
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The problem is that The Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court let the cat out of the bag, let the genie out of the corporate bottle. With that decision--that any amount of political campaigning by corporations, unions, even foreign countries is free speech under he Constitution, there can be no further laws passed or rules changed that can limit such spending. It's now free speech, and that is fundamental to our society, culture and government. What the Supreme Court failed to consider in their "decision with constructionist blinders on" is the damage their decision will have on our future electoral process.