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Recipient limits would be swept away. but i do think this case is very important because it gives the court an opportunity to develop the governing standard for contribution limit cases. as we've seen, the court has been much more deferential regarding contribution limits, much tougher on spending limits. citizens united was a spending limits case. now there is a chance perhaps to alter the governing standard for contribution limit cases and there is another case we'll hear this morning, whether the court will take, a case that challenges the corporate contribution. essentially there could be ...

Chairman and former chief counsel to the republican national economy, and pete williams. i have my own theory on this but there are specific questions. >> interestingly mccutcheon's lawyer is the same one that brought the citizens united case to the supreme court. basic question is is it constitutional to have this limit on what you can give every two years. they say, yeah, we understand the anti-corruption reason to have the individual limits but they say there's no such thing at play if you're giving to several -- if you max out on what you can individually give to a whole bunch of candidate...

President obama's ad blitz. in key swing states obama's been spending more than romney. mitt romney, as we know, received a big boost from super pacs and it's possible in coming years campaigns could look a lot more like those super pac spending machines. in a new atlantic article, james bennet look at foot soldiers fighting to eliminate all campaign financial restrictions and predict in a couple of years politicians will push to abolish contribution limits and allow candidates to accept and spend unlimited amounts from any source. his article is the cover story in the october issue of "the at...

Perspective, enough movement on the ground. and even though there are huge efforts, the problem is is that there are still people, believe it or not, who don't know that the election is june 5th and that that's the day that it matters. and so, you know, i don't think there could be enough people. chris, if you or any of your panelists or anybody want to come to wisconsin and help, just come on. i'm certain that we can put you to work. >> why is it -- i mean, one of the things that i've heard raised by folks around the dnc is, look, why should we take money that's raised under federal hard mone...

Mount a bus tour to try to combat the negativity, but that's going to be tough to do in the face of 1,200 negative ads. that's right. according to cantar media, iowans have been showed a negative message about mr. gingrich more than 1,200 times in the last few weeks. the biggest player by far in the state has been restore our future, that's a super pac supporting mr. romney. so far it's spent $2.6 million on television ads depicting gingrich as tainted by scandal, soft on illegal immigration and corrupted by decades of work in washington. so the "boston globe" now notes that super pacs, the ne...