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(Tom Toles,
In addition to their voter suppression activities, Republicans are engaging in an all-out, well-funded campaign of dirty tricks to misinform or otherwise misdirect voters. North Carolina has been one of the States where Koch brothers dark money has been used in a particularly anti-democratic campaign against incumbent Democratic Sen. Kay Hagen. Hagen is in a tight race against tea party Republican reactionary Thom Tillis. An organization funded by the right-wing plutocrats was already caught sending erroneous voter registration mailers out last month. Now, we learn another Koch-supported dark money group ("American Future Fund") is funding an online ad campaign designed to lure young voters away from Hagen and toward Libertarian candidate and pizza delivery man (no joke) Sean Haugh. (Haugh, by the way, tweeted "While I appreciate the support, I now have a whole new reason to despise Koch brothers & their dark money.")
"History will notice," indeed. But as Paul Krugman noted the other day, it's far from clear what the final outcome in the struggle between democracy and plutocracy will be.
