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Friday, February 17, 2012

The .0000063 Percent Election | The Nation

...electoral politics and the 2012 presidential election have become almost exclusively defined by the 1 percent. Or, to be more precise, the .0000063 percent. Those are the 196 individual donors who have provided nearly 80 percent of the money raised by super PACs in 2011 by giving $100,000 or more each.
via thenation.com

Posted by Jason Blum at 2:53 PM
Labels: facts I wish were more widely known, government/politics, wealth

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