The association of votes and money allows strategic maneuvers of this type, which become ever more possible and more likely. Another is the providing of campaign contributions to opposing candidates so that both will be in debt to the contributor.

No one believes superior campaign funding can guarantee an electoral victory, but to deny there is a very strong positive correlation between dollars spent and votes received is either a deliberate lie or stupidity of a very high order.

Not only does the campaign contribution system provide those interests with the most disposable financial assets a great advantage in electing sympathetic candidates, it makes it inevitable that those candidates will recognize their debt to those interests and serve them, either as a class, or as individual contributors.

Our system of campaign financing is the single most dangerous enemy democracy has in this country.