{"id":2318,"date":"2012-07-26T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T12:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2012-07-26T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T12:57:11","slug":"chart-one-gop-super-pac-has-raised-more-money-than-every-democratic-super-pac-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/07\/chart-one-gop-super-pac-has-raised-more-money-than-every-democratic-super-pac-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"CHART: One GOP Super-PAC Has Raised More Money Than Every Democratic Super-PAC Combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely a day passes without a reminder that, in 2012, Republicans are steamrolling the competition in the dash for super-PAC cash. According to a new analysis by the Sunlight Foundation, GOP-aligned super-PACs have raised $227 million for the 2012 elections, while their Democratic counterparts have raised $77 million\u2014a nearly 3-to-1 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Not startled? Then consider this: A single Republican super-PAC, the pro-Romney Restore Our Future, has raked in more money this election cycle ($82 million) than all Democratic-aligned super-PACs combined. That&#8217;s one super-PAC beating hundreds of competitors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/07\/republican-democrat-super-pac-restore-our-future\" target=\"_blank\">CHART: One GOP Super-PAC Has Raised More Money Than Every Democratic Super-PAC Combined | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely a day passes without a reminder that, in 2012, Republicans are steamrolling the competition in the dash for super-PAC cash. According to a new analysis by the Sunlight Foundation, GOP-aligned super-PACs have raised $227 million for the 2012 elections, while their Democratic counterparts have raised $77 million\u2014a nearly 3-to-1 advantage. Not startled? Then consider&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[90,1138,454,246,1327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}