Obama: Republican funding "threatens democracy" - Would You Reelect Obama In 2012?

Obama.qr55.com - Would you Reelect Obama? Ahead of mid-term elections set for November 2, US president Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail to win back popular support for the Democratic party and himself. During a rally on Thursday in Maryland, Obama lashed out at Republicans as they try to recapture congressional control in the upcoming vote. He voiced concerns that the conservative party has received a flood of funding from unidentifiable sources supporting Republican campaigns for senate seats across the country. "It could be the oil companies. It could be the insurance industry. It could be Wall Street. You don't know. Their lips are sealed. The floodgates are open, though," Obama said in front of signs read "I am change". "Almost every one of these independent organizations is run by Republican operatives. They're posing as nonprofit, non-political groups." The surge in cash flowing into campaigns for this election is owed mainly to a supreme court court decision in January that narrowly decided big business firms could spend freely to finance campaign advertising in support or against a political candidate. Obama also mentioned a report by an offshoot of the think-tank Center for American Progress this week, which said the US Chamber of Commerce may be using money from foreign corporations to attack Democratic candidates. "We learned that one of the largest groups paying for these ads regularly takes in money from foreign corporations," Obama said, without ...

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