Los Angeles Times: All the money in the world isn’t buying votes this primary season (In the News)

February 8, 2016   •  By Brian Walsh
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Noah Bierman

But as anti-establishment fervor has grown, many of those billionaires have seen their money wasted.

“Certainly, the cataclysmic arguments about super PACs, what was being said in 2010, has not come true,” said Bradley Smith, former chair of the Federal Election Commission, who advocates loosening campaign finance rules. “What I think you’re really seeing here, they’re normal. They’re citizens spending money. And some citizens are sending votes that way, and some are not.”

Trump’s prominence in the campaign is one reason that super-PAC money has had less impact than some people expected. His celebrity and wealth have allowed him to ignore many big super-PAC donors.

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