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25 July 2012

Beyond Super PACs

Max Seddon

Sarah Silverman has offered Sheldon Adelson ‘traditional lesbian sex’ if he gives the $100 million he has pledged to help elect Mitt Romney to Barack Obama instead. In 2008, Silverman focused a similarly mock-serious campaign on Florida’s blue-haired bloc. Then, the comedian's worry was that latently racist elderly swing-state voters could have denied Obama victory; now, the fear is that a single septuagenarian billionaire can do it on his own.


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