How Citizens United is — and isn’t — to blame for the dark money President Obama hates so much
January 21, 2015
[Commentary] There's a lot of rhetoric and confusion about what the Citizens United decision did and didn't do. The rhetoric is overly strong; non-disclosed spending leveled off in 2014. And given how much is spent in total, we're drowning in outside money from disclosed donors far more than from undisclosed ones.
But the shift from money being spent in the open by candidates to disclosed and undisclosed money spent by outside groups is very clear, and very much part of the story of the President Barack Obama years. The President may not like it and may not want to be associated with it, but it's hard to believe he'll be able to stop it.
How Citizens United is — and isn’t — to blame for the dark money President Obama hates so much