The amount candidates collect from donors giving more than $1,000 trounces what they collect from small donors and makes more of a difference earlier in the political game. The candidates know that size matters, and their campaign finance filings show it. This is bad news for the body politic, because big donors do not look like the rest of America, but rather represent a small, elite slice of the wealthiest and most privileged.

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