Just when the Democrats thought it couldn't get any worse. The spirit of George W lives on!! Soon US taxpayers will hear more from big banks and pharmaceutical companies about their preferred candidates for office with the extraordinary decision of the US Supreme Court allowing corporations and unions to run commercials for and against candidates. The ruling will have an impact on the 2010 elections.
Until this week, corporations and unions were prohibited from getting directly involved in elections. The question is whether we're going to see companies like ExxonMobil running ads supporting Sarah Palin.
Basically, this decision means that massive corporations like Goldman Sachs can spend billions of dollars to determine the results of Congressional and Presidential campaigns. The 5-4 decision underscores the importance of George W Bush selecting his men, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
The implications of this ruling should not be under-estimated. As MarketWatch says, no American voter anywhere will ever be safe again from attack ads, robo-calls, push polls, Twitter feeds or any of the other creative ways political marketers conceive of to drive their messages home.
And that means US politics in 2010 is going to get even nastier than it has been until now.
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