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Purch
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« on: June 25, 2012, 04:00:34 PM »
« edited: June 25, 2012, 04:05:24 PM by Purch »

American democracy died a long time ago, especially when lobbying started gaining influence for interest groups. Bigger money is just a way to reaffirm what we already know, that there's only a small minority of politicians who aren't heavily influenced by outside money. I mean Public unions have basically taken millions of dollars from union members, as a way to buy influence over legislation in the democratic party whiles the big Corporation downers donate to republic campaigns to protect themselves from anti-business regulation.

Anyhow random question. Did Citizens united completely overturn McCain-Feingold? Or are certain parts of it maintained
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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2012, 04:26:13 PM »

I kind of get the feeling that if the electoral college were eliminated then big money would have much less of an impact considering most campaign money is used to target a small number of swing states. If every vote counts the same than the money would have to be divided between basically all the states.
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