This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, April 4th, 2013.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Though she said she isn't inclined to run for president in 2016,

too well-funded super PACs are working to make sure Hillary Clinton doesn't close the door

entirely on a presidential run. How these so-called outside groups will impact

politics in future years is truly an open question.

So says John Samples, director of the Cato Institute Center for Representative Government.

We've already seen that the Super PAC has taken one form that's in retrospect not surprising at all.

Super PACs supporting a candidate are both not doing any harm to the candidate

but also not coordinated and controlled because they can't be.

So essentially the political class in a way,

the candidate class, has figured out within the law

how to have super PACs that support you, do effective

campaigning, but you really don't control.

Because the big issue was, you know, they'll go out there and do stuff and it'll cause trouble.

This isn't yet another version of the Super PAC that's distinguished from the candidate

Super PAC as it were. I put that in Perrin's. This is the kind of

upstart PAC. It gives a place where people who have been working for you and

want to support you. They can continue working. They can keep

the possibility of your presidency of Hillary running in 2016 in the newspapers. They can

collect names. They can do some things that are important.

From people's individual careers, they are sort of places where you can learn about campaigning.

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