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Mon, 12/17/2012 - 8:24am

Turning into a joke nationally, but taking over state governments Republican Super PACs didn't have much impact at the presidential level, where basically everyone knew, going into the election, who President Barack Obama is, and he had enough money to get his message out. It's at the state level, where name recognition for and knowledge about legislative candidates is low and where ballot measures with similarly low public awareness can set state law, that those Republican millions could really make a difference.

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