Witchcraft More Popular Than Citizens United -- TYT

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Via Think Progress: "In Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court justified its conclusion that corporations and wealthy individuals can spend unlimited money to influence elections because it believed that "independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption." According to a recent survey conducted for the Brennan Center for Justice, however, this places the five conservatives who joined this opinion in very lonely company. According to the poll, "69% of respondents agreed that 'new rules that let corporations, unions and people give unlimited money to Super PACs will lead to corruption.' Only 15% disagreed." To put this in perspective, a 2007 poll found that 19 percent of Americans believe in "spells or witchcraft," and that's just one of the supernatural beliefs that are more common than agreement with the conservative justices' bizarre reasoning in Citizens United...".
Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson, and former prosecutor Steve Oh discuss on The Young Turks. Read more from Ian Millhiser:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/24/470450/more-americans-believe-in-witchcraft-than-agree-with-citizens-united/

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