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Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod says GOP SuperPAC’s are planning to spend a billion dollars trying to buy upcoming elections, especially congressional races. “For congressional candidates, its gotta be a nightmare. We saw in the last election, in the last 3 weeks of those campaigns, super PACs swooped in and spent huge amounts of money in the final 3 weeks to influence those congressional races and turned a lot of races with their money,” Axelrod says.

Thanks to the Supreme Court decision in Citizen’s United, Republican SuperPAC’s will spend a billion dollars this election over and above what Romney already planned to spend. Jennifer Granholm says the big donors know that buying political races is a good investment, and they expect big returns. The U.S. is “the place where democracy is supposed to be the great equalizer, where your vote is worth just as much as Donald Trump’s. But this poisonous Citizens United decision is killing out nation and everything it stands for,” Granholm says.

Presidential historian and author of “Cronkite” Douglas Brinkley reveals how Walter Cronkite managed to seem like an impartial newsman while still being a liberal during his career as an anchor. Brinkley says Cronkite was an FDR, New Deal Democrat his entire life. Cronkite “was very concerned that liberals seemed not to be bold enough.” He was very pro-Roe vs. Wade, for global human rights… He affiliated himself mightily with the Democratic Party once he wasn’t anchoring anymore.

A 12-year-old spelling bee whiz from St. John's came close to victory on Thursday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland. Jennifer Mong was one of 50 students who made it to the semifinals but she was eliminated after incorrectly spelling vellon. Mong added an 'e' to the end of the word.According to Merriam-Webster, the official dictionary of the spelling bee, vellon is defined as debased silver, especially when alloyed with considerable copper.Mong made it to the sixth round after correctly spelling 'lymphopoiesis' which is related to the formation of white blood cells.Mong was one of only two Canadians the other was 12-year-old Mignon Tsai of Abbotsford, B.C. to advance to the semifinals. Tsai didn't make it out of the fifth round when she was tripped up by 'macropodid.'There were 278 spellers competing for the title. They were reduced to 50 for the semifinals, and to nine who made the final round.In March, Mong qualified for the Scripps National Spelling Bee by winning the 2012 Postmedia Canspell National Spelling Bee.The event aired on CBC s Spelling Night in Canada. Her Canadian title came with a $7,500 prize.Mong is a student at MacDonald Drive Junior High in St. John's.Six-year-old Lori Ann Madison, of Woodbridge, Va., the youngest contestant in the history of the National Spelling Bee, reaches for the microphone during the second round, Wednesday, May 30, 2012, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Va., takes her seat as the youngest speller in the National Spelling Bee, before competing in the Bee in Oxon Hill, Md., Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Mignon Tsai, 12, of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, reacts as she misspells a word during round five of the semifinals at the National Spelling Bee in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Lena Greenberg, 14, of Philadelphia, waits to compete in the National Spe