Groups devote millions more to ad campaigns supporting or opposing candidates; some create Super PACs to raise and spend. Just days before the midterm election, the latest political action committee reports from associations filed to the Federal Election Commission point to a possible slowdown in spending, compared to the last election. By October two years ago, 14 of the top 25 association PACs had already outspent their previous two-year cycle, with six more within 10 percent of that figure. In this cycle only eight of the top 25 PACs did so, and only one is within 10 percentage points. Fundraising is off slightly, too, at the biggest PACs, down 3 percent from this time… Read More