WASHINGTON — Advocates of unlimited secret political spending affirm it leads to a more informed electorate, however according to a fresh study, in reality it spreads more lies. An examination of presidential-election advertising spending by the top four secret huge-money political groups — all of them fair-wing — found that 85 percent of their money over a recent six-month period went to ads that independent circumstance-checkers determined were in some path deceptive.The Annenberg Public Policy Center calculated that those top four groups spent $29.3 million on advertising related to the presidential race from December 1, 2011 to June 1, 2012. Just under $25 million was spent on ads that circumstance-checkers said included at least one deception, such as the assertion that “Obama personally lobbied to kill a pipeline bringing oil from Canada” or that “the stimulus bill sent tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in China.”Glance at More…
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