Super PACs, officially known as " independent-expenditure only committees ," may not make contributions to candidate campaigns or parties, but may engage in unlimited political spending independently of the campaigns.

Super PACs were made possible by two judicial decisions.

According to Federal Election Commission advisories, Super PACs are not allowed to coordinate directly with candidates or political parties.

Super PACs are often run or advised by a candidate's former staff or associates.

According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, the top 100 individual super PAC donors in 2011 – 2012 made up just 3. 7 % of contributors, but accounted for more than 80 % of the total money raised, while less than 0. 5 % of the money given to “ the most active Super PACs ” was donated by publicly traded corporations.

Super PACs have been criticized for relying heavily on negative ads.

Many have argued that Super PACs, while meeting the requirements for legal independence, are often not truly independent of the candidates they support.

Super PACs are often managed by close associates, former staff, or a candidate's immediate family.

Super PACs were seen in the press as a possible means of allowing illegal donations from foreign entities – either individuals or companies – to be disguised.

Pew Research Center ran a poll in January 2012 to find out how many voters were aware of the ruling on Super PACs and whether they found Super PACs had a positive or negative effect on the political campaign.

They also found that most ( 60 % to 67 %) felt that Super PACs had a negative effect on the political campaign process.

As of February 2012, according to Center for Responsive Politics, 313 groups organized as Super PACs had received $ 98, 650, 993 and spent $ 46, 191, 479.

John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney, “ After ‘ Citizens United ’: The Attack of the Super PACs ,” The Nation, February 6, pp. 1, 11-17. http :// www. thenation. com / article / 165733 / after-citizens-united-attack-super-pacs? page = full

Technically, almost all political committees, including state, local, and federal candidate committees, traditional political action committees, " Super PACs ", and political parties are " 527s.

Circuit ruling in Speechnow. org v. Federal Election Commission created independent expenditure-only committees known as Super PACs which, like 527s, can raise unlimited amounts of money from individuals, unions, associations and corporations to influence elections.

The ad lampooned the flimsiness of legal restrictions against Super PACs coordinating with the candidates they support.

In the fast-paced or Super Chinese Checkers variant, played in Mainland China and popular in France, a piece may hop over a non-adjacent piece.

Super Mario may refer to:

The most common variations ( on paved tracks ) include Super Late Models ( SLM ), Late Model Stock Car ( LMSC ), and Limited Late Models ( LLM ). A Late Model may be a custom built machine, or a heavily modified street car.

Super star clusters, such as Westerlund 1 in the Milky Way, may be the precursors of globular clusters.

Thus, the 49ers may be considered the only team to have won the Super Bowl at home.

The halftime show was later shown on tape delay after the game ( at around 10: 40 EST and 9: 40 CST ), although most ABC affiliates ran the first episode of Davis Rules following the Super Bowl, and may have televised the remaining parts  of the halftime show later.

Hall used a 1 / 8 inch Tiffen Black ProMist filter for almost every scene, which he said in retrospect may not have been the best choice, as the optical steps required to blow Super 35 up for its anamorphic release print led to a slight amount of degradation ; therefore, the diffusion from the filter was not required.

Usually, testing one cartridge of film can help handle any uncertainty a filmmaker may have about how well their Super 8 camera reads different film stocks.

Super 8 Films may be transferred through telecine to video and then imported into computer-based editing systems.

If the bypass is constructed it may be a Super 2 freeway ( the second so far in New Jersey ), and run from the current northern freeway terminus to an interchange with U. S. Route 206.

Super may refer to:

The Super Mario Advance version of Super Mario Bros. 2 includes several new features such as the addition of the enemy Robirdo ( a robotic Birdo acting as the boss of World 3, replacing Mouser ), the addition of the Yoshi Challenge ( in which players may revisit stages to search for Yoshi Eggs ), and an all-new point-scoring system ( a first for the game ).

One reviewer concluded " all nostalgia and historical influence aside, Super Mario Bros. 2 is still a game worth playing on the merits of its gameplay alone ", also saying that " the only reason you may not want to pick it up is if ... you already own it in another form.

Other games, such as Super Smash Bros. Melee and the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series have featured Mewtwo as an unlockable player character that must be defeated before it may be used, while games such as Pokémon Snap have featured the character in cameos, appearing once certain conditions have been met.

The term " Super PAC ," was coined by reporter Eliza Newlin Carney, " the first to imbue term with its current meaning of ' political committees that may raise and spend unlimited money to independently support or oppose candidates.

In this film, he owns a casino in Las Vegas, which he calls Yosemite Sam's Wooden Nickel, and is accompanied by Nasty Canasta and Cottontail Smith ( who may be originally employed as his security guards ) ( from Super Rabbit ).

With the advent of modern console emulation on computers and even other console gaming systems, Tecmo Super Bowl may be one of the most hacked and modified Nintendo games in existence.

Large formats such as 70 or 35mm film may be preferred for their relatively larger working area, but direct animation is done on 16 mm or even Super 8 mm film as well.

IGN editor Lucas Thompson included Porky on a list of five characters who may be included in Super Smash Bros. Brawl based on what he described as one of the more credible proposed rosters, describing his bed-mech as an intimidating sight to see.

A possible solution may be a ram-powered AMRAAM ( ERAAM ) carried by the F-18E / F Super Hornet.

A tube power amp may be fed by a solid-state pre-amp circuit, as in most of the Original MusicMan Amps, Fender Super Champ XD and the Roland Bolt amplifier, which is thereby classed as a ' hybrid ' amp.

The lack of third-party support kept the number of new games very limited, but the success of the Philips Videopac G7000 overseas led to two other companies producing games for it: Parker Brothers released Popeye, Frogger, Q * Bert and Super Cobra, while Imagic released versions of their hit games Demon Attack and Atlantis.

During the assault, Super Six One, one of the Army's Black Hawk helicopters providing insertion and air support to the assault team, was shot down and crashed in the city.

To support the RS / 6000 and RS / 6000 SP2 product lines in 1996, IBM had its own design team implement a single-chip version of POWER2, the P2SC (" POWER2 Super Chip "), outside the Apple / IBM / Motorola alliance in IBM's most advanced and dense CMOS-6S process.

In 1993 and 1994, Buffalo ( which is located approximately 110 miles southeast of Dallas ) temporarily changed its name to " Blue Star, Texas " during Super Bowl weekend, to show support for the Dallas Cowboys ( who faced the Buffalo Bills both years ; blue is the color of the star on the Cowboys ' helmet ).

MPEG-1 layer 2 is the standard audio format used in the Video CD and Super Video CD formats ( VCD and SVCD also support variable bit rate and MPEG Multichannel as added by MPEG-2 ).

It is receiving radio support only from Los Angeles KSSE 107. 1 FM Super Estrella station.

* Hikaru and Sai appear as support characters in Jump Super Stars

It supported the CGA, EGA, MCGA and VGA IBM-compatible PC graphic cards, the Hercules, Tandy and Amstrad proprietary video cards and the main of the first Super VGA video cards ( manufacturer dependent ) modes, enabling it to support up to 800 × 600 pixel screen resolution with 256 ( from 262, 144 ) colors and 1024 × 768 pixels with 16 colors.

In order to support three players, a Super Multitap accessory must be plugged into the second controller port of the Super Nintendo console.

Sony developed DSD for Super Audio CD and many disk players support SACD.

He was in the audience during Andre Ward vs Mikkel Kessler in Oakland for the first bout of the Super Six World Boxing Classic on the 21st of November 2009 to support fellow Dane Mikkel Kessler.

The development of the University of California, Santa Barbara ( to the southwest ) and the construction of hangars in support of production of the Aero Spacelines Super Guppy ( to the northeast ) were factors in the abandonment and eventual removal of this runway.

In the run-up to Super Tuesday, 2008, Skadden hosted a phone bank in support of Barack Obama.

Unlike most Mario games, it is a rail shooter, with support for the Super Scope light gun.

In 2009 Shonen Knife released the CD " Super Group " and signed in North America to Good Charamel Records, followed by a headline tour of the US and Canada in support of the release, including performances on MTVU and a headline performance at the Fun Fun Fun Festival in Austin TX.

The Canadian NORAD Region ( CANR ) flew Operation Noble Eagle ( ONE ) air defense protection missions in the Windsor, Ontario / Detroit, Michigan area on 5 February 2006, in support of Super Bowl XL at Ford Field.

Launch titles Wave Race 64 and Super Mario 64 were re-released in Japan in July 1997 with Rumble Pak support.

The Super Bowl has been used as an incentive by the league to convince local governments, businesses and voters to support the construction, seat licenses and taxes associated with new or renovated stadiums.

However, Gary Hart maintained that unpledged superdelegates that had previously claimed support for Mondale would shift to his side if he swept the Super Tuesday III primary.

Senbei Norimaki appears as a support character in Jump Super Stars, while Midori, Gatchan, Obotchaman and Unchi-kun were added as support characters in Jump Ultimate Stars.