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  • FEC Reports Increase in PACs

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    Paul Blumenthal

    From the Open Secrets blog Capital Eye, the Federal Election Commission put out a release showing a 1.3% increase in the number of registered political action committees over the last seven months. The best part of this release by the FEC is a long chart detailing PAC registrations from 1974 to the present. I broke down this down into some cool charts below:

    As Massie Ritch points out at Capital Eye, corporate PACs outpaced others, particularly labor PACs, by quite a bit. That wasn’t always the case:

    Posted: August 12, 2008 - 5:27 pm. Tags: , , ,

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