Anyone who paid a minimal amount of attention to the world
of politics during the 2012 election cycle surely noticed the avalanche of
advertisements for the various candidates for offices both locally and
nationally.
These ads, which used to come predominantly from the
campaigns of those individuals running for office, started coming increasingly
from organizations with very innocuous sounding names. These groups are largely
run by deep-pocketed individuals with very specific axes to grind, and
generally favor conservative candidates.
