The Grim Future Of Campaign Finance

politics.salon.com — It’s not even the general election season, and we’re already seeing the electoral process dominated by super PACs, funded with unlimited donations and protected by a paper-thin veil of “independence.” The super PACs operating in the GOP primary have managed to delay disclosing their donors until next month, but the identities of who funded these groups will be public. Groups in a different category — those that don’t ever disclose donors — haven’t started operating in any prominent way, but you can be sure they will in the fall. I’ve recently explored how we got to this point. But what about the prospects for reform of a system that so many are disillusioned with?

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