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It’s not just rich Republicans — unions also giving millions to SuperPACs

The vast majority of the media coverage of this year’s SuperPAC phenomenon has focused on conservative billionaires who’ve given millions to Republican-leaning or anti-Obama SuperPACs. But it’d be a mistake to forget about the multi-million dollar investment American unions have made in Democratic-leaning SuperPACs. The Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group committed to transparency in government […]

Voices of the West: How unions keep Obama up in Nevada

Reno – Democrats like to say that demographics — i.e., a booming Latino population — is going to push President Obama over the line in Nevada, where the RealClearPolitics.com average has him up by 3 points, even after Mitt Romney’s recent surge. Demographics help, but demos don’t mean anything without ground troops. And as we […]