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When It Comes to Outside Election Spending This Year...
You ain’t seen nothing yet. A new report by Open Secrets reveals that non-Party SuperPACs and “dark money” groups with mystery donors have spent more than a half billion dollars this election cycle – more than the total amount of spending by non-party groups in every election since 1990 COMBINED. And most of that money is not being used in the Presidential election – it’s being used in Congressional and state races where it doesn’t take much money to sway an election and the media markets are cheaper.
But here’s the thing – the majority of spending this year is still likely to come. According to historical precedents – most spending occurs in the final weeks before the election, meaning voters are about to be hit with a tidal wave of TV ads financed by unknown corporate donors.
According to some estimates – total outside election spending will be well into the billions before it’s all said and done.
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Walmart workers issue "Black Friday" ultimatum (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
In for Thom tonight, please welcome Progressive Commentator Sam Sacks 
Need to Know: Walmart workers issue "Black Friday" ultimatum- Josh Eidelson, Labor Journalist / Salon & In These Times
Screwed: October Surprise...Super PAC $$$ gone wild- Bob Biersack, Center for Responsive Politics
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Prisons for profit?- Austin Petersen, Libertarian commentator / FreedomWorks
Daily Take: The Secret list of 14 words
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched; who ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. Let us follow no such examples, nor weakly believe that one generation is not as capable as another of taking care of itself, and of ordering its own affairs. Each generation is as independent as the one preceding, as that was of all which had gone before." -- Thomas Jefferson.
Hour One: Vote for Jesus on November 6th?- Rev. Bill Keller, Live Prayer.com online ministry
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Bible: " Mark 10:25". " It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Bible: " 1 Timothy 6:10". " For the love of money is the root of all evil."
Efforting to bring a consumer owned health insurance cooperative to Illinois - Elliot Richardson, Small Business Advocacy Council
Hour Two: Supreme Court at risk of becoming too...liberal?- Adam Freedman, Conservative Legal Commentator / Author-The Naked Constitution
Letter: " Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 " The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please." Article: " 10th Amendment". "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"
New Obama for America ad re: Big Bird, state of the campaign, debate preview- Melanie Roussell, National Press Secretary-Democratic National Committee
Hour Three: The bankster difference...Greece vs. Iceland
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: What's at stake for women's health rights- Nancy Northup, Center for Reproductive Rights
Hour Two: Pastors give big bird to IRS...should they lose their tax exemption?- Rob Boston, Americans United for Separation of Church & State
Hour Three: Poverty in America...why has everyone stuck there head in the sand on this issue?- Greg Kaufmann, The Nation Magazine
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Debate night America...how will Vice President Joe Biden fare against upstart Paul Ryan? We'll have a preview...
Plus, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program, Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Does Romney's post-debate poll bump make him the favorite?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Greece vs. Iceland - are we seeing the collapse of Globalism?
Now Ireland is Nationalizing the Banks
The Good, The Bad and the Very Very Incruentalously Ugly!
Crazy Alert! Marriage - For Better or For Worse - Over Logs & Through Mud
The UN is Calling for a World-Wide Safety Net for the Poor
Your Take/My Take LIVE!! Big Bird, Globalism & Unions
Sensata Workers & Community Blockade Bain
Daryl Hannah on the TransCanada pipeline
Greece vs. Iceland - are we seeing the collapse of Globalism?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 10/9/12: The Collapse of Globalism?
Thom talks with economist Marshall Auerback on the latest outrage in Europe over continued austerity measures. Also discussed: Actress Daryl Hannah on why she's risked her freedom to stand up against TransCanada and their Keystone Pipeline, the latest on Bain company Sensata Technologies and how the UN hopes to create a global safety net. And in tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks to the countries of Iceland and Ireland to find a solution to America's housing crisis.
Thom Hartmann on the News - October 9, 2012
Pushing for a consumer owned health insurance cooperative in Illinois.
Obama for America's new Big Bird ad
Thom Vs. Adam Freedman - Supreme Court at risk of becoming too liberal?
Thom Vs. Rev. Bill Keller - Vote for Jesus on November 6
Callers respond to Rev. Keller
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