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The Small Donor-Fallacy: Don’t believe the hype!
Friday, June 20, 2008

Posted by Justin Jeffre

I’ve written a lot about the undue influence of big money and how it nullifies honest elections. This election year, people are excited because more candidates are getting small donations, but are these small donors really changing things? In the best democracy money can buy, small change brings a modicum of change and campaign finance reform is still too important to be left to corporate politicians.

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