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2012 Super PACs Selector |
 | If you visited the Presidential Candidate Selector and other political selectors on this site, you probably know which candidates you support. This selector will tell you which Super PACs support the candidates you support. Super PACs were authorized by a Supreme Court decision known as Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission. Such groups can spend unlimited sums and their contributors are partly shielded from public disclosure. They can work on behalf of candidates but are forbidden from coordinating with those candidates.
The candidates they benefit can plausibly deny any responsibility for any Super PAC dishonesty or ethical lapses. Therefore, Super PACs often viciously attack opponents with little or no accountability.
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3. My Super PAC will have "normal administrative expenses, including but not limited to, luxury hotel stays, private jet travel, and PAC mementos from Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus".
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4. My Super PAC will produce an attack ad with what the Washington Post calls a sleazy mischaracterization of a candidate’s anti-abortion position.
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5. My Super PAC will produce a video assailing a candidate for "reaping massive awards" while head of venture capital investment firm.
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6. My Super PAC will produce an attack ad stating that this Republican "shot an ad with Nancy Pelosi in 2008 calling for action on global warming."
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7. My Super PAC will produce an ad slamming a political opponent as a "chameleon".
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8. My Super PAC will produce a campaign commercial with the tagline "The Conservative We Can Trust". A wag suggested this is in contrast to the usual untrustworthy conservatives.
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9. Since all is fair in love, war and politics my Super PAC will produce an attack ad falsely implying that Bill Clinton opposes President Barack Obama's plan to raise taxes on wealthy Americans.
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10. My Super PAC will create a "RINO Watch" list — "Republican office holders around the nation who have advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free market policies."
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11. Since the other guys lie, my Super PAC will perpetuate a phrase what is later to be called "PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'A government takeover of health care'".
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12. I like unconstrained hyperbole. My Super PAC will produce an attack mailer stating that this candidate "is the second most dangerous man in America".
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13. No political ad is too offensive if it supports my side. My Super PAC will produce an attack ad featuring an actress portraying a pole-dancer in booty shorts representing a female candidate for Congress.
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14. Unlike most other Super PAC's attack ads, my Super PAC will produce a positive TV ad. In this case showing how its preferred candidate compassionately helped an interracial couple.
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15. My Super PAC will promote a tax plan that copies exactly the rates used by the computer game, Sim City 4.
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16. If I am going to make a contribution to a Super PAC
I want them to be BIG spenders!
I prefer they be frugal spenders (making my contribution more important).
Neither
17. My Super PAC will contribute to a:
Presidential campaign
Senate campaign(s)
House campaign(s)
Various political campaigns
Other
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18. My Super PAC will promise to make ads that are even less responsible than another Super PAC's racist, misogynistic ads.
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Neither
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