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The Plum LineConservative groups have spent up to $75 million in undisclosed funds, dwarfing left
As you know, the conservative groups that are plowing huge sums of money from undisclosed donors into the midterm elections have been defending their actions by insisting that groups on the left are doing the same.
So I thought it would be interesting to do a straight-up informal comparison: How much in undisclosed donations is being spent by the right on independent expenditures and election communications, versus how much is coming from the left.
Here are the results. According to data from the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation,
http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/independent-expenditures/committee conservative groups that have spent significant sums have plowed nearly $75 million in undisclosed donations alone into this election.
By contrast, liberal groups have spent under $10 million -- around one eighth that sum. And much of that is coming from groups that weren't set up just to influence elections.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/spending_spending_spending.html