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All those TV spots add up: Nonparty organizations have spent $20.6 million so far in the 2013-14 election cycle, more than three times their spending at this point in the 2011-12 cycle, according to\u00a0an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Aside from candidates’ own campaigns and traditional party committees, there are several types of nonparty political organizations. They include traditional PACs that contribute directly to campaigns and so-called “super PACs” that can’t give money directly but can spend unlimited amounts independently of campaigns; both types must disclose their donors.<\/p>\n\n

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Another category, politically active nonprofits, don’t have to disclose their donors; for that reason, the Center for Responsive Politics calls them\u00a0“dark money” organizations. Such groups have spent $2.5 million so far in the 2013-14 cycle, accounting for 12% of all nonparty spending. At this point in the last cycle, “dark money” groups had spent less than $441,000, representing 7% of total nonparty spending.<\/p>\n\n

Most of the “dark money” spent so far in the current cycle has been by liberal groups; over the past three cycles conservative groups had dominated that area of campaign finance. (The center characterizes a group as “liberal” or “conservative” based on its spending pattern.) The League of Conservation Voters<\/a>, for instance, spent more than $800,000 to support Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in this summer’s special Senate election; Patriot Majority USA<\/a> has spent almost $558,000 opposing Republicans Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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