Wake up, Neo
The Matrix has you:
Federal election regulators refused to ease limits on political advertising Tuesday, blocking an effort to let interest groups run radio and television ads mentioning elected officials within weeks of an election.
The Federal Election Commission voted 3-3 on a proposal that would have allowed such ads as long as they addressed public policy issues and did not promote, support, oppose or attack a sitting member of Congress.
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The measure failed with the commission’s three Democrats voting against the proposal and the three Republicans backing it.
Read that again. The “easing” of the limits would have allowed issue ads only if they “did not promote, support, oppose or attack a sitting member of Congress.” Now, if you run an issue ad in the sixty days prior to an election, you must make no mention whatsoever of a member of Congress.
This is, of course, the product of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform” law. Tell me again why John McCain should be president?
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