Despite 2010 being a "midterm" year, Jeff Mapes reports that Washington is on course to break the previous record for spending on a single ballot measure. The projected spending also shatters the previous Oregon record.
Fairly incredibly, the American Beverage Association has donated nearly $14.5 million to defeat a proposed 2 cent tax on cans of soda. Supporters of the increase have raised less than $500,000.
With the looser laws regulating campaign and election-related spending after Citizens United, I believe this is a harbinger of things to come.
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