Are Elections for Sale?

Now let us use our heads and deal appropriately, as they say in Washington, with a corporate ruling class that has hijacked the nation, and in so doing eliminate at least one glaring contradiction: that ours is a government of, by, and for the many when it is so notoriously the exclusive preserve of the few. —Gore Vidal, from the Foreword

In recent years, many voters have wondered whose voices are actually heard by our elected representatives. As the cost of running competitive political cam...