Ruling Could Spur More Ads

The political world scrambled yesterday to reckon with the Supreme Court's loosening of limits on "soft money" expenditures and its implications for the 2008 campaign season: a potential surge in television advertisements paid for by unions and corporations that in recent years had fewer outlets for...
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Alec MacGillis

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