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2010 citizens united supreme court decision saying money speaks opening the floodgates for outside groups. through what we now know as superpacs. in the 2012 election cycle alone, superpacs spent over half a billion dollars. and this week, as we saw the big money influencers pull their strings on the gop, the supreme court heard what many are calling the sequel to citizens united and it's even worse than the original. thanks to this man. sean mccutchen, an alabama republican who wants to get rid of limits to the total amount an individual can spend on candidates and parties in a given election...

And we'll see a lot of push back. we see states moving toward disclosure and i think that will be interesting. but one thing i think the case exposes, we have unlimited donations, often secret, by outside groups, incredibly restricted limits with contributions and that is the heart of what the supreme court has to decide. >> the way the rules are now, if you're running for congress or the u.s. senate or, frankly, the presidency, you're at an unfair advantage because an outside group can control the campaign message more so than you can. that's weird. that's not fair. >> if you're a millionaire...

Mark can i says gomez will vote for conservatives and is not the kind massachusetts moderate that gomez claims he is. he says mark can i is reckless big spender and washed up insider and budget responsibility for the debt after nearly 40 years in washington. >> if you want to talk numbers, the year was 1976. $680 billion was the national debt. it is now $17 billion, sir. you are washington, d.c. and you own the national debt, sir. >> reporter: pretty tough stuff. a nasty race with lots of name-calling attack ads by the campaigns and lot of outside groups. last night mark can i raised eyebrows ...

Help protect democracy. so, this is more than just wisconsin, scott. >> that's one of the scary things here is for every document we were able to obtain here, there's probably 10, 20, 50 other ones we don't know about. that's just within the romney campaign. i mean, there are these new outside groups who are fanning across the country like true the vote whose express purpose is to send poll watchers to heavy minority districts and the idea is to slow down the process, issue challenges on eligibility, put up as many barriers as possible to vote. >> well, so that we must deal with these barriers...

In 2008 artist shepard ferry inspired many with his barack obama hope poster. as a supporter of unpack.org, a group aimed at reducing the influence of money in politics he presided over an art competition to select an image to inspire others. the winner 21-year-old nashville artist landon wicks created this image showing the monopoly man rich uncle penny bags along with the message keep money out of politics. ferry and obama supporters says, quote -- that effort comes against this backdrop. last week, the obama and romney campaigns surpassed the $2 billion mark in fund-raising which doesn't in...