8 of 10 Top Super PAC Donors Are Republicans

Via Think Progress: "Last January, a study found that seventeen of the top twenty political donors are Republicans or conservatives. Last night, USA Today published a similar roundup of Super PAC donors in the 2012 cycle, and they found exactly the same pattern. Eight of the top ten Super PAC donors are Republicans or corporations who donate exclusively to Republicans...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more from Ian Millhiser here: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012...

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[finerbiner]

Union membership is 1/4 what it was in 1970. It now makes up 8% of the workforce. That 8% is ruining America?

Uninformed, partisan, ass kissing fools like you are ruining America.

[rocky19421]

This is not democracy. This is an auction.

[votejoiner]

It's exactly what the people apparently want

[Myaucat]

obama had 4 years to get rid of the super pac system.. why didn't he do it?? when bush wanted something or didn't want it, he just rammed it thru by executive decision. obama just plays too nice and that is his major weakness b/c he thinks he can REASON with psychopaths.

[Joel Hackbart]

You did not then listen to the video. He said "I’d like to take all this money out of politics."That would include union money as well. If any repub really believed the preposterously absurd claim that unions could out donate the entire conservative corporate machine, THEY would be the ones working to overturn "Citizens United", wouldn’t they??? ????

[rsty614]

2 unrelated topics, first off this video is showing the top 10 donors to superpacs who give to all politicians compared to presumably the millions of people donating to the president

[dirtbagcatholics]

And the rich crooks will just figure out a way to cheat at that too! No matter how many assassinations it takes.

[dirtbagcatholics]

P.S. Ever notice that all politicians who die from assassination are democrat???

[dirtbagcatholics]

The enablers of these "super pacs" are the five roman catholic rats on the supreme court. The same ones who helped appoint Jeb's brother. Ya know Jeb the knight of columbus.

[Graham6762]

Is everything on this show a ridiculous lie. I have a subscription to the Chicago tribune a democratic paper and even they admit Obama has about a 3 to 1 money advantage over the Republicans right now. This show is just propaganda and lies.

[yeaitwasme]

jizz...more like frizz_bee!

[calimar28]

Agreed. Im conservative, but I dont like corporations buying polics for the GOP, any more thn I like public unions, or the tax bracket system that allows a politician to bribe one group of voters (the poor), another groups money (the rich). That is also "money in politics" and stinks just as bad. But you wont hear Cenk whining about that...only the part that helps conservatives.