In 2008 secret donors helped elect Barack Obama. This year secret donors may deprive Barack Obama of a Democrat majority in Congress.
A massive $4.2 million ad buy announced Tuesday by American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS erases any doubts that the groups, conceived by veteran GOP operatives Karl Rove (pictured) and Ed Gillespie, have the cash to be major players in next month's election.
In 2008, secret donors flooded Democrat election coffers -- much of it from overseas.
This year the shoe is on the other foot and the Democrats are strggling to match the spending by GOP-allied outside groups.
Democrats had no problem when secret donors help elect Barack Obama.
Now, however, they are up in arms and have even asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (Crossroads GPS, for short) is abusing its tax-exempt status to influence elections while allowing its donors to evade the public disclosure requirements.
The letter to the IRS is part of a growing concern by Democrats for stricter campaign finance rules.
In 2008, they were happy with the campaign finance rules because they were able to bring in vast secret overseas donations under the radar.
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