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</html><description>Yves here. This post is important not only for its perspective on the power of big money in current election but also in blowing up the myth of the role of small donors in Obama's 2008 campaign.  Since October 17, the big GOP Superpacs appear to be outspending Priorities USA on media by at least three to one.</description></oembed>

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