LOD: Attack of the Super PACs

Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Iowa? Get ready: attack ads and over-the-top hype will soon be coming into your home in unbelievable quantities. In the past week, new creatures known as Super PACs have spent nearly $2.7 million, mostly on TV ads for and against various Republican presidential candidates. Because Super PACs are supposedly independent of the candidates, they can accept unlimited donations – but who believes they are really independent? Fred Wertheimer, president of the watchdog group Democracy 21 and always good with a sound bite, says, “These are the most dangerous vehicles for corruption in American politics today.”