How Small Money Can Matter Again in Politics
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Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- A funny thing’s happening on theway to Nov. 6. The billionaires trying to buy the U.S. electionwith contributions of $1 million, $10 million or even $100million aren’t succeeding.
If trends continue and the Democrats have a good year(still a big if), the notion that in order to win candidatesneed the indirect backing provided by gobs of money fromsuper-political action committees will be discredited.