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#558: Spending Big Money To Fight Big Money
Super PACs let rich people, corporations and unions spend as much money as they want to try to influence the outcome of elections. On today's show: How a Harvard professor created a super PAC to attack super PACs. He's raised millions of dollars — in part from really rich people — to reduce the political influence of really rich people.