My friend Tom Edsall has forgotten more about the uses of money in politics than I'll ever know. (He's the author of the cult classic Money and Power, which traces the fall of the urban political machine and the rise of the fundraising power brokers, much to the disadvantage of the urban working class.)
With that caveat, I have to disagree with him about the significance of candidates taking lobbyists' money. Sure, they're all going to wind up getting money...
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