Listened briefly to someone on NPR discussing campaign finance. Forget who at the moment. But, he was arguing that mere disclosure hasn't provided any check on politicians -- people don't know or care who gives money to whom by and large. He's right, I suppose, but I blame the media for this. All corporate donors know that they have to split their donations across parties in order to appear clean, which is enabled by our media who are willing to parrot the line that Corporation X gave "equally" to both parties, when that "equal amount" is often 65-35%.
