Chris Good writes at The Atlantic about Citizens United advertising in the upcoming campaign cycle. Good writes:
While it's certainly important to wonder how corporate funds will impact campaign advertising in upcoming elections, a point that isn't being discussed much is how the threat of corporate-dollar influence will shape policy-writing in the future. Will a member of Congress or the Senate be willing to write a law that negatively impacts a corporation or a whole industry knowing that huge amounts of funding could be put behind a challenger in the next election cycle?
Now that corporations and unions can spend directly on elections, per the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, how will the landscape of political TV and radio advertising change in this election cycle? Many expect a flood of advertising, and Jeremy Jacobs at Campains & Elections explains that corporations might crowd out the campaigns themselves on the airwaves.
While it's certainly important to wonder how corporate funds will impact campaign advertising in upcoming elections, a point that isn't being discussed much is how the threat of corporate-dollar influence will shape policy-writing in the future. Will a member of Congress or the Senate be willing to write a law that negatively impacts a corporation or a whole industry knowing that huge amounts of funding could be put behind a challenger in the next election cycle?
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