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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (129075)	1/23/2010 11:09:51 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542054

The dirty little secret about advertising is that people want to be advertised to, and they respond to much of what they are bombarded with. In the future, campaign ads will be such a huge proportion of political campaigns that the debates and interviews and rallies will seem like trivial afterthoughts. With predictable results.

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (129075)	1/23/2010 11:26:15 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542054

I was surprised to read that Gallup's polling indicates that the public agrees that corporate spending in elections is "free speech" As that piece you linked to suggests, one can consider it free speech but still favor suppressing it. Something can be constitutional but undesirable or unconstitutional and desirable. To me it seems like folks are conflating the two. If they favor the law that was overturned, then it must have been unconstitutional. I don't claim an opinion about its constitutionality. I haven't studied it carefully enough. From what I've read, though, it seems to me that you can reasonably make a constitutionality case either way depending on what you want the answer to be. Neither is a slam dunk.

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (129075)	1/23/2010 8:25:32 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542054

I don't care what they are or what people think they are. Buying elections destroys the election process. In the end the deepest pockets will win, and we will end up with an entrenched and supremely powerful oligarchy- which is pretty much where we are now, but it will get worse. Oh joy