Major Broadcast News Networks Ignore Poll Showing 78 Percent Of Americans Want Citizens United Overturned

October 6, 2015 2:24 PM EDT ››› MAKENZIE MURPHY

A recent Bloomberg poll showing 78 percent of Americans in favor of overturning the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling received no coverage on national nightly news programs for ABC, CBS, NBC or PBS, nor Sunday morning political talk shows on ABC, FOX, or NBC. The court decision is once again having an enormous impact on the presidential election, with hundreds of millions of dollars expected to be raised and funneled into political super PACs through 2016.

Bloomberg Finds Overwhelming Majority Of Americans Polled Disapprove Of Citizens United Ruling

Bloomberg Poll: "78 Percent Of Those Responding Said The Citizens United Ruling Should Be Overturned." According to a September 28 article by Bloomberg Politics, a new national poll found that "78 percent of those responding said the Citizens United ruling should be overturned."

"Wow. Wow. I'm stunned," said David Strauss, a constitutional law professor who teaches at the University of Chicago. "What it suggests is that Citizens United has become a symbol for what people perceive to be a much larger problem, which is the undue influence of wealth in politics."

The 5-4 ruling said that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited sums in support of political causes. That decision, coupled with a lower court's rejection of a ceiling on contributions to political groups, opened the way for the super-PACs that are expected to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the 2016 presidential race. [Bloomberg Politics, 9/28/15]

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