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To: epicure who wrote (129063)	1/23/2010 10:48:08 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (4) of 542054

Thanks to the supreme court supporting the "freedom" of corporations to buy elections, I'd say it will be even worse in the future. Considering the founders didn't even want to give all people the right to vote, I wonder how the fools on the supreme court figured it squared with original intent to do what they did I was surprised to read that Gallup's polling indicates that the public agrees that corporate spending in elections is "free speech" gallup.com The free-speech question elicits uncommon agreement across party lines. More than 6 in 10 Republicans and Democrats believe campaign donations are a protected form of free speech, but fewer than half of independents (48%) agree.

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