2012 Thomas --
Forget about New Hampshire for a minute. A group of lawyers for the Republican Party just did something very revealing in Washington:
They filed a brief asking a federal court to overturn the century-old law banning corporations from donating to federal political campaigns. And you have to hear their exact words on why:
"It artificially disadvantages political party and candidate committees by forcing them to rely on aggregating small-dollar donations from individuals..."
 Translation: The fact that corporations can't literally buy the Republican Party and its candidates is preventing them from reaping the full benefit of completely selling out. 
So not only are the Republican Party and their presidential candidates focusing their fundraising efforts on Washington lobbyists and special-interest PACs and playing the same old money-for-influence game, they are actually saying that ordinary people giving whatever they can afford discriminates against them as a party.
Corporations are already financing hundreds of millions of dollars in so-called "super PACs" -- now Republicans want to sell the entire political process to the highest bidder.
 Will you donate $X or whatever you can to support a system of politics that has always believed in the power of millions of individual voices -- and not wealthy corporations?  
The candidate who won New Hampshire last night raised just 9 percent of his campaign funds from donors who gave less than $X. I'm sure he thinks he'd be a lot better off if corporations who just so happen to be "people" in his mind could pony up whatever they want to help him out.
 We rely on actual people like you to keep this thing going. Please pitch in what you can to support this campaign and help show the Mitt Romneys of the world that our type of politics works -- and it's the right thing to do:  
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