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Obama reverses course, endorses use of Super PACs in 2012 campaign

August 15, 2013Global Politics

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama indicated he would get behind the effort to build up Democratic Super PACs to compete with the tsunami of Super PAC money generated by Republicans — something he’s previously refused to do.

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