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Madness is that our current electoral process

medium term electoral process, and finally to an end, fortunately, it seems, it would be a good time for the madness that has taken root in our electoral process when it comes to campaign spending is activated. Consider a recent online article in the Washington Post Ruth Marcus, 29 in the October 2010 issue of The Week published:

- receive The article says the Republicans, and spending more than 0,000,000 of anonymous donors, an outrageous sum that has been heavily criticized by Democrats.

- but set in 2004, Democrats campaign groups, trade unions and big dollar sponsors individuals who have contributed over 0 million to the Democratic front

- Ms. Marcus stated that the unfortunate “the Federal Election Commission fined only 0.3 million in 2004, this outrageous for three years after the fact, that does not appear to affect the election results

- 0.3 million, the fine a pittance of a slap on the hand, receives less than 1% of the amount.
According to the conclusion of the article: “If there must be campaign funds, Democrats and Republicans essentially the same position: if we have more to spend because of a loophole in the law, which is good if the other has more money that is democracy. “