SuperPACs storm Iowa

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In Iowa's presidential scramble, the biggest players were not the candidates, but an insidious, ever-growing force that voters couldn't even see: corporate cash.
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In Iowa’s presidential scramble, the biggest players were not the candidates, but an insidious, ever-growing force that voters couldn’t even see: corporate cash.

Welcome to the Brave New Political World created out of thin air by the Supreme Court two years ago. In their now infamous Citizens United decision, the Court’s five-man majority of laissez-faire ideologues decreed that corporations can funnel unlimited sums of money into non

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