Saturday, September 29, 2012

Money and Politics

Want good evidence how corrosive the Citizens United decision was for our electoral process?

Republican  Democratic
$36,591,800 $4,225,700
$16,959,200 $3,220,238
$15,940,900 $2,436,300
$4,794,700 $9,882,238 Total
$2,860,900

$2,800,933

$2,229,539

$82,177,972 Total


Not only is there a 9-to-1 partisan difference between the top-ten donors, but it is also simply unhealthy for a democratic process to be subject to this type of influence by big money interests.

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