The role that super PAC’s and PAC’s have is funding a candidate without actually declaring it. Super PAC’s can receive an unlimited amount of money from individuals and corporations and use that money in any media related position to mostly bash other candidates. They currently spend nearly double what a candidate committee would and have a pretty significant impact on the outcome of election. There isn’t much, if any, regulation and if information is incorrect, no candidate can be blamed for it because they are not supposed to be affiliated with Super PAC’s at all.
I believe super PAC’s cause more harm than good and should be regulated more closely by the government for the following reasons:
1. They make the presidential election something you can buy and spend your way to the top
2. Gives the wealthy and big corporations a bigger impact on elections
3. Overly negative campaign ads won’t hurt anyone’s reputation, even if wrong information is aired
Looking at the following chart, you can see a lot of money is going into these campaigns.
| Group | Supports/Opposes | Independent Expenditures | Viewpoint | Total Raised |
| supports Romney | $46,540,707 | Conservative | $56,512,634 | |
| supports Gingrich | $17,002,762 | Conservative | $23,907,955 | |
| supports Santorum | $7,529,554 | Conservative | $8,466,221 | |
| supports Obama | $5,783,785 | Liberal | $10,578,305 | |
| | $5,035,994 | Conservative | $6,632,024 | |
| supports Paul | $4,135,182 | Conservative | $3,675,479 | |
| supports Perry | $3,959,824 | Conservative | $5,585,945 | |
| supports Huntsman | $2,804,234 | Conservative | $3,189,064 | |
| | $2,609,010 | Liberal | $5,665,348 | |
| supports Dewhurst | $2,263,934 | Conservative | $1,430,100 | |
| | $1,954,764 | Conservative | $4,053,927 | |
| | $1,893,964 | Liberal | $4,210,671 | |
| | $1,820,779 | $2,882,134 | ||
| | $1,133,584 | Conservative | $29,927,515 |
Millions and millions of dollars are flooding in that back certain candidates and what does this lead to, whoever has the richest supporters is elected president? You just have to wonder, does nothing else matter besides bank accounts for the most important role in this country. This is something far lefts and far rights can agree upon. They don’t want this race to be based on how much money a super PAC can raise.
Because large donations are made by corporations, unions and wealthy individuals, they make a bigger impact than the rest of us. They give money to a super PAC that spends it on negative advertisement that promotes something they agree with. The super PAC keeps getting more donations and keeps running advertisements all across the country that people can’t help to believe. Eventually, it takes out candidates one by one because those candidates don’t have the same financial support of a super PAC. These donations could never have been made directly to the candidate they support but with the unlimited amount of money they can give to a super PAC, they just influenced a presidential election. It is not fair to the people or the candidates who don’t have a wealthy support.
Another negative thing dealing with super PAC’s is their negative ads. Although most American’s get sick of these attack ads fairly quick, most can see how they’d be effective. They bring other candidates’ mistakes to light. But when a candidate runs an overly negative campaign, they usually pay for it by being attacked for not showing any positive aspects about him/herself. Not with the help of super PAC’s that throw negative information all over the internet, TV and radio with no loss to anyone’s reputation. No candidate is responsible for the facts and their campaign doesn’t take any hit for it, they only reap the benefits.
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