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Republicans have waged a decades-long battle to blow up the campaign-finance laws that rein in big-money spending. Now, they are making a play that could end in their biggest victory since the Citizens United ruling in 2010.

The GOP is growing increasingly optimistic about their prospects in a little-noticed lawsuit that would allow official party committees and candidates to coordinate freely by removing current spending restrictions. If successful, it would represent a seismic shift in how tens of millions of campaign dollars are spent and upend a well-established political ecosystem for TV advertising.

An eventual victory in the lawsuit, filed last November by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, would eliminate the need for House and Senate campaign committees of any party to set up separate operations to make so-called independent expenditures to boost candidates with TV ads.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TV ads

Does anyone watch TV ads anymore? I haven't watched a single TV ad since the NFL season ended in February. Even then I always mute.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you talkin' bout? I get political "TV" ads on my YouTube all the time. Same on all streaming services. Hell, I have even seen them on games when I am being forced to watch them for whatever abusive advertising game I decided to stupidly try this week.

I am pretty sure that the law does not distinguish.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What you talkin' bout?

I pay to remove ads on streaming services, including Youtube. If a streaming service does not have an ad-free option, I don't use it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have done the same, but that has been getting quite expensive to do and my pay has not matched inflation even remotely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Rotate the services and only pay for one or two at a time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Older people do. Higher level of voting too