The Secret Money Project

This year, the NPR Election unit is teaming up with the Center for Investigative Reporting to report on the new crop of independent groups. With changes in political strategies and campaign law, they're potentially more important than ever.

But we need your help. Why? Even though NPR and CIR have the best research tools available, many of these groups will use strategies that will be visible only to voters. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.9
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

With news organizations chopping budged for investigative reporting, perhaps this is a way to cover private money influencing elections. The two examples given are a bit unbalanced, putting the swift-boating of a presidential candidate against a little known attack against a US representative. Perhaps that is because there is more big secret money injected by the right rich republicans.

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