Compare And Contrast Presidential Election Vs Superpac

Once every four years a major event captures the attention of the United States known as the presidential election. No football game, Holiday, or any other American event gets this much attention from the United States other than the election for the second full Tuesday of November every four years; yet many people do not fully understand all the aspects of a single presidential election. So one may ask, what are PAC’s and Super PAC’s, what do they have to do with outside groups and why are they associated with dark money? A PAC, acronym for political action committee, is a group of politically determined people who privately raise money in order to impact federal level elections. A Super PAC, much similar to a regular PAC, is also a group …show more content…
Political campaigns are quite similar to these boxing matches; minus the blood and violence of course. Instead, politicians prefer to take the cheap shoots with the help of Super PAC’s. Super PAC’s spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars they receive from their donators to make high dollar attack ads. These attack ads have a large impact on campaigns, unfortunately, for the wrong reasons. Many of these campaigns target some of the personal and private matters of a candidate. With the growing trend of reality television shows, magazines, and social media society has developed curious desire to know about Politian’s personal lives. In this upcoming 2016 election, attack ads are already pouring in about Donald Trump attacking his diminutive political experience. This negatively affects the outcome of campaign because an attack ad shifts the attention from the more relevant and important issues to issues that on certain levels, has nothing at all to do with the campaign. Therefore, the time that was wasted on criticizing a candidates characteristics that is not beneficial to the campaign could be spent resolving the many issues plaguing the political