Vermont Case Offers Chance to Embrace Spending Limits

• By Donna Brazile
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• Nov. 8, 2005, Midnight

Today is Election Day and a good time to assess the state of our democracy. American political campaigns are no longer about the citizens who go to the polls. Instead, they’re about how much money you can raise. It’s tempting to call this one of the dirty little secrets of our politics, but that would be misleading — it hasn’t been a secret for quite a while. It’s time we get serious and turn the situation upside down.