Sunday, October 31, 2010

More Money, More Problems

Ezra Klein, Newsweek
The 2010 election cost more than $4 billion"”a staggering sum. It's large enough that some of my colleagues, like Daniel Gross, have wondered if, in a weak economy, we shouldn't have elections every year. "Quantitative electioneering," he calls it.But it's also a depressing sum. Some of that money came from small donors, people who felt strongly about the direction of their country and dug into their own pockets to make it better. That's all for the good. But much of it came from corporations trying to buy access with winners,...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/10/31/more_money_more_problems_244936.html

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