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Beyond Campaign Finance Reform, Tabatha Abu El-Haj
Beyond Campaign Finance Reform, Tabatha Abu El-Haj
Tabatha Abu El-Haj
The average American voter is apathetic, ignorant and polarized, or so we are told. Except, it turns out, with respect to her views on the outsized political influence of the super wealthy: poll after poll reveals a bipartisan consensus that wealthy interests exert too much political influence and there is good evidence to support these concerns. While the public blames the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC for this situation, experts in the field know that the constitutional constraints on our ability to limit the political influence of moneyed elites long-predate Citizens United and pose a formidable barrier …