“Did Citizens United Help Democrats in 2012?”

Molly Ball: “After a year Democrats mostly spent fretting, freaking out, and fulminating against Citizens United–the 2010 Supreme Court decision that unleashed this year’s flood of unfettered political spending–it was a bit unexpected to hear Michael Podhorzer, the political director of the AFL-CIO, say on Friday, ‘Super PACs are so awesome. It was long overdue that the Supreme Court recognized that corporations are people like everybody else.'”

Share this: