Super PAC is evolving!

First, we have the GOP. They are taking advantage of "pre-announced" status and setting up the super PACs early and as their main avenue.

Then we have Hillary. She is having a super PAC coordinate with her campaign, but get away with it because they will only do internet stuff.

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A second, semi-official super-PAC is being formed to help Hillary Clinton, and in an unusual twist, has announced plans to coordinate with the Democratic presidential front-runner's campaign. The move is the latest manifestation of a new trend in 2016 politics: the outsourcing of routine campaign functions to outside groups that are permitted to raise money in unlimited amounts. Candidate committees are limited to donations of $5,400 a campaign cycle from individuals. Last month, the Associated Press reported that all-but-declared Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush will be running much of his campaign through a super-PAC. Clinton's newest super-PAC ally, Correct the Record, is spinning off from American Bridge, another super-PAC that formed four years ago and that conducts opposition research on Republican presidential hopefuls. Correct the Record, which has been serving as a rapid-response team to defend Clinton since November 2013, is being recast as an independent super-PAC that will continue to serve as “a political research and communications war room,” the group said Tuesday. What’s unusual is that Correct the Record plans to coordinate with the Clinton campaign and potentially other federal campaigns and Democratic party committees—something that quickly drew skepticism from watchdogs who find it difficult to see how the group can function without running afoul of campaign finance laws. Those laws are designed to prevent committees that collect big-dollar contributions from having direct contact with campaigns.

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We killed campaign financing reform! Drop the balloons, Jimmy!

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