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Super PACs making a difference in 2012 primary elections

Global Politics

As voters in New Hampshire cast ballots, they’re being inundated with advertising that seems to support one candidate or another, but which is actually paid for by “independent” Super PACs, political groups that can raise and spend virtually unlimited amounts of cash on political issues.

Impressions from the ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’

Global Politics

John Hodgman and the Media Geeks

Arts, Culture & Media

‘Six Word Memoirs’ tell big stories

Arts, Culture & Media

Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC Man Trevor Potter

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Voices from the rally to restore sanity and/or fear

Arts, Culture & Media

Takeaway host Celeste Headlee and Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich talked to people at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear to find out why they came and what they hoped would be the new legislative agenda.

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