3 billionaires who'll drag out the race – Kenneth P. Vogel<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThese wealthy patrons are fueling super PACs for Gingrich, Huntsman and Santorum.
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Because of unlimited donations to Super PACs, supporters of some of the increasingly has-been GOP candidates are able to keep those candidacies alive. Which I suppose is good news if you actually like Gingrich or Huntsman or Santorum, or if you think that their being in race will weaken Romney as an eventual candidate, or … Continue reading “Hooray for money!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18946,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/16\/my-personal-political-conspiracy-theory-of-the-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":25312,"position":0},"title":"My personal political conspiracy theory of the day","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 16-Oct-10 12:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Michael Steele is a buffoon.\u00a0 He throws off periodic gaffes of a volume to make even Joe Biden blush.\u00a0 He's had repeated scandals in the Republican National Commitee.\u00a0 And, not surprising, donations to the RNC have been way off this cycle, compared to donations to other conservative groups. 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