Mort Zuckerman: No Easy Solutions for Big Money in Politics

Citizens United and super PACs have had an ugly effect on this election, but they may be the evil of two lessers

Big money is having a powerfully different effect on this year's national election campaign. We've seen it in the extraordinary oscillations of the Republican primaries, largely brought about by millions of dollars of television attack ads, financed not by the opposing campaigns so much as by groups outside the parties that can say whatever they want without the candidates or the parties being called to account.