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Directly and through their trade associations, companies poured over $3 billion into the 2012 elections. Are they suffering from buyers regret? Thought leaders Bruce Freed (Center for Political Accountability) and Charles Kolb (French-American Foundation) talk about how campaign spending is skewing the market, hurting the economy and damaging democracy—not to mention producing unintended consequences for donors. Three years after Citizens United, why do so many companies feel like victims of a political shakedown? How have their investments in "pro-business" candidates yielded outcomes that hu
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