Members of the U.S. House raised nearly 80 percent of their funds from outside their districts with much of the money coming from Zip codes in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, according to a new report from MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan campaign finance research group.  The MAPLight Web site allows visitors to select a legislator to find their contributions ranked by top 10 Contributing Zip codes, Top 5 Contributing states, the percent of contributions from outside the district and the percent from outside the state. A national map uses circles to highlight the geographic areas where most contributions originated.   Representatives raised $700 million in campaign funds from 2005 to 2007 and $551 million, or 79 percent, came from outside their districts, while $146 million, or 21 percent came from within their districts. The Washington, D.C. area is the largest contributor to Congressional campaigns, accounting for $146.8 million, or 21 percent of all contributions.  Fifteen of the top 20 contributing Zip codes are in the Washington area. For 99 percent of U.S. House members, Washington D.C. was among their top 5 contributing states even though it includes only 0.2 percent of the country’s population, MAPLight reports.  “With out-of-district fundraising at a staggering 80 percent, the problem is not with a few individual House members. This report provides evidence that our campaign finance system is broken,” said Daniel Newman, MAPLight’s executive director. “We, as citizens, have handed special interests the remote control, forcing our potential leaders to grovel before PAC leaders and lobbyists to raise the funds needed to win elections.”  MAPLight analyzed contributions to all legislators from each state and from Washington, D.C. for January 2005 through December 2007, and excluded individual contributions under $200, those from political parties, other candidates and leadership PACS.