"Poll: Strong support for campaign spending limits" by MARK SHERMAN at Yahoo

[applegrove]

Poll: Strong support for campaign spending limits

by MARK SHERMAN at Yahoo

http://news.yahoo.com/poll-strong-support-campaign-spending-limits-120557612--election.html

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More than 8 in 10 Americans in a poll by The Associated Press and the National Constitution Center support limits on the amount of money given to groups that are trying to influence U.S. elections.

But they might have to change the Constitution first. The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case removed limits on independent campaign spending by businesses and labor unions, calling it a constitutionally protected form of political speech.

"Corporate donations, I think that is one of the biggest problems today," said Walter L. Cox Sr., 86, of Cleveland. "They are buying the White House. They are buying public office."

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The strong support for limiting the amount of money in politics stood alongside another poll finding that shows Americans have a robust view of the right to free speech. Seventy-one percent of the 1,006 adults in the AP-NCC poll said people should have the right to say what they please, even if their positions are deeply offensive to others.

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[demosincebirth]

1. Nothing new. Ever since I could remember campaign spending limits was always on the back

burner. That's as far as it will get. Just talk. Never happen in my life time.