What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.
I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.
One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing.
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.