Obama reverses course, endorses use of Super PACs in 2012 campaign

8 February 2012, 1:03 pm

President Barack Obama on Tuesday indicated to donors that if not changing his opinion of Super PACs in general, he's willing — and indeed hopes — to have them support him in the upcoming presidential election. Previously Obama had previously called them "a threat to our democracy," but, according to a report in The New York Times , after seeing the way Republican Mitt Romney used Super PACs to ...... Read More »

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