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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 may support particular candidacies.
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 tothe 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.

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Super Bowl III was the third AFL-NFL Championship Game in professional American football, but the first to officially bear the name " Super Bowl " ( The two previous AFL-NFL Championship Games came to be known, retroactively, as " Super Bowls ").
Greenwood recorded a Super Bowl record four sacks but it has gone unrecognized since the NFL didn't officially record sacks until 1982.
On July 28, 2011, Nintendo announced that Mario Kart: Super Circuit, as well as nine other Game Boy Advance games, will be available to limited Nintendo 3DS owners, via Virtual Console, to whom will participate in the Ambassador Program after Nintendo officially issued a price-cut to the Nintendo 3DS starting August 12, 2011.
VGA was officially followed by IBM's Extended Graphics Array ( XGA ) standard, but it was effectively superseded by numerous slightly different extensions to VGA made by clone manufacturers that came to be known collectively as Super VGA.
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, often shortened and officially known in Japan as, is an action role-playing game developed by Square ( now Square Enix ) and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( SNES ).
Bulacan ( Filipino: Bulakan ) ( PSGC: 031400000 ; ISO: PH-BUL ), officially called the Province of Bulacan ( or Lalawigan ng Bulakan in Filipino ) or simply Bulacan Province, is a first class province of the Republic of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon Region ( Region 3 ) in the island of Luzon, north of Manila ( the nation's capital ), and part of the Metro Luzon Urban Beltway Super Region.
were controversially elected out of the Football League to make way for Peterborough United in the 1960s, whilst Gateshead Thunder lost their place in Super League as a result of a takeover ( officially termed a merger ) by Hull.
Building off various Southern Hemisphere competitions dating back to the South Pacific Championship in 1986, with teams from a number of southern nations, Super Rugby officially started with the 1996 season with 12 teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Initially inscribed with the words " World Professional Football Championship " and generally referred to as the world championship trophy, it was officially renamed in 1970 in memory of legendary Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi after his sudden death from cancer and to commemorate his victories in the first two Super Bowls.
The last Tornado Alert officially issued was discussed in earnest following the 3 – 4 April 1974 Super Outbreak.
The 1973 final, which Ajax defeated Milan 6 – 1 on aggregate, was the first Super Cup officially recognised and supported by UEFA.
Originally, in the English localization of the original video animation, Marth was referred to as " Mars ", but it was pronounced " Marce " as opposed to the usual " Marz "; with the release of Super Smash Bros. Melee, Nintendo of America officially localized his name as " Marth ".
The original arcade version of Breakout has been officially ported to several systems, such as Video Pinball, the Atari 5200 ( included in Super Breakout ), and the Atari 2600.
In the United States, Super Tuesday, in general, refers to the Tuesday in February or March of a presidential election year when the greatest number of states hold primary elections to select delegates to national conventions at which each party's presidential candidates are officially nominated.
* September — Nintendo's Famicom ( NES ) and Super Famicom ( SNES ) are officially axed from production worldwide.
" Although not officially released in Europe, the game was covered in an import review by Super Play in late 1993 and although they found the game's strategy components to be " top-notch ", the rest of the game was regarded as " very mediocre ", garnering only a 47 % average score.
Modeled after and acting as a modern-day Peter and the Wolf, the musical segments of the concerts were interspersed with narrations of the storyline of Super Mario Galaxy, with the performances having been officially licensed and sponsored by Nintendo.
Argentina officially joined SANZAR, the body which operates Super Rugby and The Rugby Championship competitions in rugby union, in a meeting in Buenos Aires on November 23, 2011
officially premiered after Fox's broadcast of the Super Bowl XXXIX on February 6, 2005, alongside The Simpsons, with " Pilot ".
Unlike previous Alpha games, the final match for all the regular characters is against a more powerful version of M. Bison ( officially known as Final Bison ), who uses a more powerful version of the Psycho Crusher as a Super Combo.
Despite appearing in North American video game magazine Nintendo Power in 1996, the Super Nintendo game was never officially released anywhere outside of Japan.

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His brothers are comedic actor Bob Einstein, better known by his stage name " Super Dave Osborne ," and Cliff Einstein, a partner and longtime chief creative officer at Los Angeles advertising agency Dailey & Associates.
By far, the best known representation is the animated Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, whose popularity has spread the three-syllable Spanish pronunciation of the word coyote throughout English-speaking North America.
These wines eventually became known as the " Super Tuscans ".
Like Whipper Whip ; Markie, Wise and Super Lover Cee's ethnic heritage was not that well known.
A known side effect of this policy was the Sega Genesis version of Mortal Kombat selling over double the number of the Super NES version, mainly because Nintendo had forced publisher Acclaim to recolor the red blood to look like white sweat and replace some of the more gory graphics in its release of the game, making it non-violent.
However, New York went on to defeat the Raiders in the AFL Championship to advance to Super Bowl III where the Jets won what would come to be known as the Lombardi Trophy much to the fury of Raider fans.
The Jets have maintained a rivalry with the Indianapolis Colts since 1969 when the Jets and the Colts, known then as the Baltimore Colts, faced off in Super Bowl III.
Super Bowl XXIX MVP and Hall of Famer Steve Young was famously known for being a dual-threat quarterback.
The aspects of style and gameplay from Super Mario Kart that have been retained throughout the series have led Nintendo to face criticism for a lack of originality but the franchise is still considered to be a beloved household name by many, known for its familiar core gameplay.
* Mario Pinball Land, also known as Super Mario Ball, a pinball video game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Element 106, now known as seaborgium, was first created in 1974 at the Super HILAC accelerator at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory by a joint Lawrence Berkeley / Lawrence Livermore collaboration led by Albert Ghiorso and E. Kenneth Hulet.
Square has also made other widely known games such as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Frontier, Romancing Saga, Vagrant Story, Kingdom Hearts ( done in collaboration with Disney Interactive ), and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars ( done under the guidance of Shigeru Miyamoto ).
In 1968 Shula and the Colts were considered a favorite to win the NFL championship, which carried with it a berth what was becoming popularly known as the Super Bowl against the AFL champion.
* Chōbaku Mahōden Slayers ( original name: 超爆魔道伝スレイヤーズ, 8 volumes, illustrated by Shoko Yoshinaka, adapted from Slayers main novels 1-8, 4th volume adapted from Slayers Return movie, 1995 – 2001, also known as Super Explosive Demon Story Slayers )
The First AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, later known as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporary reports as the Supergame, was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.
The Second AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, later known as Super Bowl II, was played on January 14, 1968 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.
The Packers, the defending Super Bowl I champions, posted a 9-4-1 record during the 1967 NFL season before defeating the Dallas Cowboys, 21-17, in the 1967 NFL Championship Game ( also popularly known as the Ice Bowl ).
As the favored team, the Redskins ' 38 – 9 defeat at the hands of the black-jerseyed Raiders led Super Bowl XVIII to be known as " Black Sunday ".
This was the first Super Bowl to be played at Jack Murphy Stadium ( now currently known as Qualcomm Stadium ) in San Diego, California.
Mario Kart: Super Circuit, known in Japan as, is a racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance in 2001.
In 1998 " DM ", as he is known, moved to Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States, where he is a sought-after studio musician, record producer, and member of the band, Super Genius, although he still tours the UK, Europe and Australia regularly with various acts.
It exists in two main versions: the original standard 8 mm film, also known as regular 8 mm or Double 8 mm, and Super 8.

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